[sldev] Numbers on 32-bit vs 64-bit Linux deskop adoption

[Rob Lanphier]

I've been doing a little asking around about 32-bit vs 64-bit Linux
desktop adoption, and got the following mail.  Based on one reasonably
current estimate, 64-bit adoption is running at about 24.6%.

I filed a feature request in JIRA as a place to gather up conversation
on this topic:
http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-13793

If you have other sources of data, please post them there.

Thanks!
Rob
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [Lf_desktop] Hard numbers on 32-bit vs 64-bit Linux
desktop adoption
Date: 	Sun, 31 May 2009 23:13:37 -0700
From: 	Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz at gentoo.org>
To: 	Rob Lanphier <robla at lindenlab.com>
CC: 	lf_desktop at lists.linux-foundation.org



On 21:15 Sun 31 May     , Rob Lanphier wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I work on the Second Life viewer, which we make available for Linux
> desktop users.  One thing I've been doing a little searching around for
> is hard numbers on 32-bit vs 64-bit OS adoption among desktop users.  If
> we could get a sense of the current share and trajectory, that would
> help us plan for the shift.
> 
> Any idea where to dig that kind of thing up?

To get numbers for Fedora, I went to the Smolt page and clicked "Host 
based statistics" 
<http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/static/stats/stats.html>.

Arch    Count   % of total	
i686    177386  75.0 %  	
x86_64  58125   24.6 %


I think Smolt is opt-in at the end of the installation process.

-- 
Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com


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