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Raúl Porcel posted on Fri, 01 Aug 2014 10:52:21 +0200 as excerpted: |
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> But almost all arches except amd64/x86/arm are getting less and less |
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> popular: |
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> alpha: no new hardware in more than 8+ years |
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> hppa: being phased out IIRC, and no new workstations |
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> (ie, graphics/sound) in 5+ years |
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> ia64: no new workstations in 10 years, new servers are expensive |
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> ppc*: new workstations are expensive |
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> sparc: no new workstations in 7+ years, new servers expensive |
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> One of the reasons they are being killed, IMHO, its that the power |
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> consumption isn't worth, and an amd64 machine is pretty much more |
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> powerful, has more cores, and cheaper and has a lot less power |
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> consumption. |
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While to nowhere near the same degree, I'd suggest x86 (32-bit) is |
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getting less popular now too, at least for gentoo with our focus on end- |
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user software building. It'll certainly be awhile before it's in the |
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minor-arch camp, but amd64 definitely has the mainline focus now and if |
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x86 installs are keeping up with retirements I'd be very surprised. |
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Amd64 is probably maintaining but I doubt it's increasing much. |
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In terms of usage, tho for different reasons I guess arm is about where |
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amd64 was when I switched to it in 2003, and to gentoo a few months later |
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in early 2004 -- in gentoo they could be challenging x86 for #2 in a few |
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years tho I'm not ready to predict they'll challenge amd64 any time soon. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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