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

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Hi Rob, 

I've posted a comment on the JIRA
(http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-13793) regarding testing to get
Second Life running in openSUSE Linux on standardized AMD/ATI hardware.

ATI has traditionally been seen as a less-preferred graphics solution in
Second Life, however, my private startup company is both an AMD Solution
Partner and in SL. 

I have already found myself offering graphics driver support to residents
in-world with ATI graphics on several occasions. 

While residents try to get SL running on Linux boxes, is there any formal
online help or support places to help them successfully do it - and not just
for NVIDIA(R), but ATI as well...

Any thoughts?

DMC Zsigmond


-----Original Message-----
From: sldev-bounces at lists.secondlife.com
[mailto:sldev-bounces at lists.secondlife.com] On Behalf Of Rob Lanphier
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 3:55 AM
To: Second Life Developer Mailing List
Subject: [sldev] Numbers on 32-bit vs 64-bit Linux deskop adoption

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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