[Ambassadors] Best choice for DVD CD 9 give away

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Wed May 14 14:46:19 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 22:11 +0300, Baris Cicek wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 21:02 +0200, Gerold Kassube wrote:
> > 500 x i386
> > 250 x X84
> > 250 x PPC
> > 
> > from my perspective and the look in the past ...
> Really there need that much PPC copies? Macs with PPC is fading away and
> newer Macs are already x86_64. 
> 
> According to smolt statistics[1] PPC consists only 0.4 % of the total
> installations. If we bases smolt statistics as decision basis it should
> be:
> 
> 750 x i386
> 250 x x86_64

Agreed, PPC is not really something I'd recommend producing in this
case.  And I'd aim for Live CD media instead of DVD if you have to
choose.  Not only can people install from them, but they can also turn
their images into Live USB without having to download many hundreds of
MB first. :-)

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