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Re: [PLUG] Which distro for non-intel machines
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It would be poor planning.
Obviously these people need some help here to direct their work to other
systems.
bs
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 05:53:22PM -0500, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> > Debian supports 11 *machine* architectures, of which NetBSD supports
> > 17. (Didn't we have this conversation a month ago on IRC? ;^>)
>
> Oh, and I understand from one of the developers that the forthcoming
> Debain GNU/NetBSD will support only sparc and i386, due to the
> insistence on rebuilding all the GNU tools for it rather than simply
> packaging the extant, operational NetBSD userland.
>
> I feel that's poor planning, especially since there's an expressed
> interest in supporting both userlands in the long run (get something
> working first, then add to it; who cares if you switch the default
> to GNU later; it shouldn't matter), but I'm not about to do anything
> about it. :^>
>
> --
> gabriel rosenkoetter
> gr@eclipsed.net
>
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