gabriel rosenkoetter on Tue, 5 Nov 2002 17:20:06 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] Which distro for non-intel machines


> On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> > 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. :^>

On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 04:42:19PM -0500, Bob Schwier wrote:
> It would be poor planning.
> Obviously these people need some help here to direct their work to other
> systems.

Huh? Is that intended sarcastically, or are you really suggesting
that volunteers should be told not to do what they're doing because
I don't agree with the way they're doing? I certainly didn't mean to
suggest that, and I apologize if that's the impression you had...

-- 
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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