Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting
Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de> writes:
> Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 01:33:16PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
>> > Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>> > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:10:32AM +0100, Ingo Juergensmann wrote:
>> > > > All the work and support over all those years by all those users and porters
>> > > > will be vanished with that stupid idea, imho.
>> > >
>> > > Ingo, obviously you are pissed off. But really, is there much benefit in
>> > > making *releases* for the SCC architectures?
>> >
>> > For anyone who uses Debian as base of a commercial solution it is a
>> > requirement. Grabing some random unstable snapshot is a non-starter.
>>
>> Sure. Who's doing that on anything but i386/amd64/powerpc?
>
> Desktops/Laptops aren't the only computers, there are much more
> embedded systems around than you seem to think. E.g. 4G Systems uses
> Debian as base system. With the growth of embedded systems (32 MB RAM
> seems to be the common lower limit now) the use of full-fledged OS'es
> will increase.
>
> If you want to run Linux on such a mips/mipsel system today, you can
> either buy a Linux from Montavista/Redhat/..., or use Debian. The
> system is still unlikely to report popcon results if you do.
>
>
> Thiemo
The "magix" buildd on buildd.net that helped out last year when mipsel
had a huge backlog is just such a system. It's from mycable.de but
basicaly identical to 4G Systems (2 lans instead or lan+wireless).
Good enough to build qt and some other ~1000 debs on it.
MfG
Goswin
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