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Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore



Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 02:04:54PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
>> ports - NetBSD gives us the potential to bring Debian to _many_ new
>> platforms. 
>
>It's not that many actually.  The only CPU that NetBSD claims to support
>but Linux doesn't is the pc532.  Also the (umerged) Linux VAX and arm26
>aren't really useable unlike their NetBSD counterparts.

It depends a bit on your definition of platform - NetBSD supports the
Turbochannel Alphas while Linux doesn't, for instance. There's various
chunks of architectures that are better supported by one than the other.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59-chiark.mail.debian.devel@srcf.ucam.org



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