Alpha Source Code?

Tom Linden tom at kednos.com
Thu Dec 9 00:47:53 UTC 2004


Thanks for listening.  I was curious if there were any downloads at
all for IA64,  which to me appears to have a dubious future.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: axp-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:axp-list-bounces at redhat.com]On
>Behalf Of Mike A. Harris
>Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 11:17 AM
>To: Linux and Red Hat on Alpha processors
>Subject: RE: Alpha Source Code?
>
>
>On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Tom Linden wrote:
>
>>Could you share with us the relative breakdown in shipments
>>of 32bit vs 64bit Redhat?
>>
>>And of the 64 bit how does it look with AMD64/ia64/PPC64/s390x ?
>
>As mentioned before, the best guess we could have would be just 
>that, a guess.  We could analyze *.redhat.com ftp and webserver 
>logs to produce statistics for what ISO images people download, 
>etc. and generate stats for that, but it does not take into 
>account how many machines a given download gets installed on, or 
>how many people use a given download.  It also doesn't take into 
>account mirror sites of which there are numerous of, nor does it 
>take into account things like bittorrent, etc.
>
>We only provide official Fedora Core for x86 and AMD64 at this 
>point, however we provide the src and binary rpms for all of the 
>other 5 architectures that build successfully in our build 
>system.
>
>IMHO, it is about as impossible to compute estimates for this as 
>it is to compute how many Linux users there are out there.
>
>-- 
>Mike A. Harris        ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
>OS Systems Engineer   -   X11 Developer   -   Red Hat
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