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> On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 07:38:52AM -0500, LeRoy Cressy wrote:
> > Any of you who have compiled their own kernel, used Debian will know
> > that Linux will run on almost any archectecture.
>
> Oh, really? How's it do on the two acorn platforms (26 and 32)? The
> vax? The pc532? The sparc64 (in 64-bit mode)? The pmax? The
> sun{2,3}? The x86_64 (that's NOT the same as ia64)? Anything based
> on a StrongARM? HP 300 or 700 series workstations?
>
> How about detecting the hardware beyond the processor on the LUNA
> 68k series? The NeXT? Any MIPS-based SGI? The Brains mmEye? Digital
> DNARD?
You can find the answer to this question here:
http://www.debian.org/ports/
> > With Linux there is no company that has control over the enviroment.
> > The only real control is by Linus over the kernel. Why is IBM inviting
> > Linux programmers to port their applications to S390 and even providing
> > them login accounts on an S390.
Also, there are several forks of the kernel, one of them being Alan Cox's.
You can create your own fork. However, as people target their patches to
Linus' you will get more and more out of sych, and soon, the patches won't
work too well, unless you get back to the main tree.
Fred Ollinger
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