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On 5/10/11 10:56 PM, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> The reason non-x86/amd64 architectures are so close to x86/amd64 is that |
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> people using "alternative" archs rarely fail to install. The x86/amd64 |
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> numbers start out about 2–3x higher at the beginning of the handbook, |
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> but most of them don't complete it. |
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I just thought about a different possible explanation. When I'm setting |
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up new chroots or other test installs, I frequently only look up |
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information from the first pages of the handbook, like what's the exact |
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command to unpack the stage or what's the right order of steps. Setting |
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up the logger, cron and so on usually doesn't require referring to the |
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handbook. |
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> It's tough to know how long an installation sticks around, but that many |
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> new installs per day is pretty impressive. |
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Yeah, and also it looks like the interest in arches like sparc, ppc, |
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hppa and so on is much higher than what I expected. That's great! |