On Friday 31 May 2002 03:27 pm, Brian Nelson wrote: > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [snip] > > > Fundamentally, Debian is committed to being a multi-architecture system > > for as long as porters are willing to support it. The Project Leader > > posted to debian-devel-announce about porting a couple of weeks ago, and > > summed up the issues quite nicely. > > That must be this post here: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2002/debian-devel-announce-20 >0205/msg00007.html > > I would never argue for dropping support for arches unless there was no > longer any interest in them; however, I still think asynchronous > releases are a decent idea. i386 undoubtedly gets far more testing and > should be ready for release before other arches.
way back when i first used suse, my suspicion of their imminent transition into user-phobia and rh-style commercialism seemed vindicated by their disregard for platforms other than i386. while i can't hold a conversation with a mac user for longer than ten minutes, there really wasn't even gloat value in the notion that the biggest, fattest, meanest mac in town had to wait six months or a year to get hold of the current release. it just made suse seem cheesy. i think it speaks for the integrity of debian that as much as possible is done to cater to everyone simultaneously. ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
