so is it fair to exclude most of the student base that may be pushed to spend more than a few hundred £/$ on a secondhand machine , remembering that the dell t7600 workstation still fetches around that for a machine that is still a v1 (twin CPU E5-2680 0 cpus with ht giving 32 cores at 2.8ghz 64gb ram ) still quite a good machine by todays specs but unfortunately to be scrap as no v2 support ,,,, and £750 for a system thats v4 to replace it at the same spec's i seem to think theres going to be a vast number in the user base , especially those that cant afford to spend so much on a new (secondhand machine ) to replace there current ones , and having equipment that is going to be redundant after that was the main user base for suse , and linux in general ,, it could be quite a high number of users 50%+ , a small fraction ?

david

On Sat, 1 Oct 2022 at 10:57, Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de> wrote:

On Sat, Oct 01, 2022 at 05:30:08AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> Stefan Seyfried composed on 2022-10-01 10:38 (UTC+0200):
>
> > gain should not be wasted by tending to a small fraction of the
> > installed base.
>
> Small? Where's the data that says so? What does "small" mean? How do we know half
> the planet's user-base isn't pre-level2? How do we know the size of the fraction
> below level2 that has the means to get past level1 before avx9 and sse100 have
> reached the marketplace?

Yes, maybe if we provided multiple builds of glibc or openssl for
different CPU feature sets and a mechanim that automatically installs
the one that's suitable for the CPU you are using we would get download
statitics, and decide what to do when we have some data.

Thanks

Michal