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Re: debootstrapping m68k-coldfire



On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Ingo Juergensmann wrote:
> Should support, but won't do so. In fact IT world became rather monocultural
> when it comes down to architectures. MIPS is dead (except for embedded
> systems), arm is embedded only, PowerPC is mostly dead with the exception of
> some old PPCs and mainframes, and so on... Even i386 is about to fade away
> in favour of amd64. 

I just can't resist to comment: PowerPC is still big in game consoles,
and the PS3 can run Linux.

However, due to the limited amount of memory compared to the PCs of
these days, a `light' (desktop) environment is still a good thing to
have.

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


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