Re: Do we need this junk?

On 2007-04-06 08:40, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't appreciate being called a lier. Maybe you should step up to
> the plate if you don't believe my statistics.
> 
> AMD Semptron 1,259
> AMD Athlon_64 2,796
> AMD Athlon_XP 2,885
> AMD Athlon 812
> AMD Duron 741
> AMD Opteron 625
> AMD Turion_64 175
> 
> Intel Pentium_4 8,768
> Intel Pentium_4M 291
> Intel Pentium_M 1,722
> Intel Pentium_3M 233
> Intel Pentium_3 6,362
> Intel Pentium_D 982
> Intel Pentium_2 1,872
> Intel Celeron_P2 888
> Intel Celeron_P3 529
> Intel Celeron_P4 4,224
> Intel Celeron_M 299
> Intel Xeon_P4 2,380
> Intel Core 1,246
> 
> Generic i786 1
> Generic i686_SSE 33
> Generic i686_MMX 114
> Generic i686 298
> Generic i586_MMX 520
> Generic i586 261
> Generic i486 30
> Unknown 99
> 
> Data source: http://www.bsdstats.org/cpus.php

A lot of people are running "bsdstats" ports, and we should appreciate
the work people have put into making http://www.bsdstats.org/ happen.

I'm not sure I agree with the use you are putting these statistics into,
whatever.

The original goal of the statistics pages was to serve as a basis of
version-related and hardware-related information, which can be used to
convince hardware vendors to support *MORE* FreeBSD systems.

Now you are arguing that because more modern CPUs and hardware are,
well, "more modern", we should start dropping support for some of the
systems listed there -- effectivelly reducing the number of systems
supported by FreeBSD.

This is a bit odd :-/