[ros-users] [Discourse.ros.org] [general] REP3 proposal for Lunar Loggerhead

[Mikael Arguedas]

[quote="marguedas, post:3, topic:1179, full:true"]

For ROS packages, amd64 downloads exceeded i386 since 2015, last month's statistics of xenial downloads show amd64 packages downloaded ~20% more than i386 [[3]](https://awstats.osuosl.org/reports/packages.ros.org/2016/12/awstats.packages.ros.org.urldetail.html). We do suspect that most i386 downloads are made for computers supporting 64-bit instruction set but running x86 OSs

[3] https://awstats.osuosl.org/reports/packages.ros.org/2016/12/awstats.packages.ros.org.urldetail.html
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Update on the statistics. The previous statistics were package lookups (`apt-get update`) and not actual package downloads.
Below is the breakdown of package downloads per architecture over the last few years:
```
|  Architectures | 07/2014 | 12/2015 | 12/2016 |
------------------------------------------------
|     amd64      | 67.56 % | 82.94 % | 84.01 % |
|     i386       | 28.77 % | 10.52 % |  6.53 % |
|     armhf      |  0.00 % |  2.96 % |  4.66 % |
|     arm64      |  0.00 % |  0.00 % |  1.59 % |
|     source     |  1.05 % |  0.51 % |  0.68 % |
```
Note: `armhf` packages have been introduced in 2015 and `arm64` packages in 2016
Note2: these statistics are total package downloads, all Linux and ROS distributions combined






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