On Friday 20 June 2003 20:57, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> There's no reason to get sarcastic.
>
> I run Debian on sparc and other architectures. Debian on each
> architecture is slightly different. For example on sparc there are
> images to boot off the network. I don't know if there are similar
> images for i386, but they would be useless anyways. This isn't a
> reason not to have them.
>
> As I said in another message, on sparc there is barely any hardware
> (2 sound cards, 2-3 network cards, some scsi cards) and most of it
> just works because it is included in the kernel. On i386 there's a
> gazillion different pieces of hardware.
>
> I don't see how adding hardware detection to i386 hurts any of the
> other architectures.
Agreed, having hardware auto detection doesn't hurt (although it will
furthre complicate the installer), but developing a program that runs
on all these platforms is no easy task.
> P.S. Red Hat and Suse support other architectures too. I don't like
> Red Hat, and I certainly don't like Suse, but I mention it to show
> that hardware detection is compatible with portability.
Only AMD64, IA-32 and IA-64. Compare it to 13 (or so) architects that
woody runs on.
Also, Debian has the ability to use 4 kernels (NetBSD, FreeBSD, Hurd and
Linux) while SuSE and RedHat are Linux-Only.
> Just my two cents,
Same here
Cheers
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