Re: Future of m68k - Etch and beyond
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 10:05:55AM +1100, Finn Thain wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Ingo Juergensmann wrote:
> > > I think most of the Debian m68k porters would prefer to stay with Debian
> > > instead of another distro. Just an assumption... ;)
> >
> > Yes, but I'll say it anyway: Gentoo gives you sufficient flexibility
> > <ducks>
> >
> > Just the fact that they don't really have a "release cycle" makes it
> > attractive. And (apparently) it has already been ported to m68k. And it
>
> Only partially so. I once tried it, it wasn't even remotely useful.
I guess the Debian build daemons have more RAM/disk than the average machine
running Linux/m68k? I don't want to compile everything myself.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
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