Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 04:24:23PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 09:44:30AM +0200, 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.
>
> However, NetBSD doesn't run on IA64 or S/390 as far as I know, while Debian
> does.
Of course, FreeBSD (5.0) does run on IA64, so I suspect it won't be that
long before NetBSD has a port to it. I also recall seeing that people
are in the process of porting both FreeBSD and NetBSD to S/390.
---Nathan
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