| gabriel rosenkoetter on Sat, 08 Feb 2003 19:50:30 -0500 |
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[Fred, please cite your quotes. It makes it rather difficult to
respond to them if you don't.]
> [I wrote:]
> > 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?
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 02:40:32PM -0500, Fred K Ollinger wrote:
> You can find the answer to this question here:
>
> http://www.debian.org/ports/
That was a rhetorical question, actually, since I was looking at
that page and Debian will not work on any of those systems.
> 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.
But why would I want to fork from an architecture-dependent design
when I could just use a portable one, considering I care about
portability?
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gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net
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