Re: Future of m68k - Etch and beyond
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 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.
Gentoo supports binary packages, but there are very few available for m68k
at present.
I'm not going to attempt it without distcc and some fast cross-compilers
(even though that still requires a fair chunk of RAM for linking).
-f
>
> 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
> when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
> -- Linus Torvalds
>
Reply to: