Subject: Re: Chat?
To: Jan Danielsson <jan.m.danielsson@gmail.com>
From: Geert Hendrickx <ghen@NetBSD.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 12/07/2006 10:24:52
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 09:10:36PM +0100, Jan Danielsson wrote:
> Statistically, what I'm about to say is completely worthless. But I
> still want to ask: Is anyone else here seeding these systems? Is so,
> have you also noticed that approx 0 people have interest in NetBSD/amd64
> (and it's a very good approximation, too), while amd64 is very popular
> (more popular than i386 versions) on the Linux side?
No, you only noticed that approx 0 people have interest in NetBSD/amd64
*binaries*. I think the conclusion is that most amd64 users are building
releases from source themselves, as an average amd64 box is faster than an
average i386 box.
Geert