Re: Uses for m68k Was: Re: debootstrapping m68k-coldfire
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Michael Casadevall wrote:
> I understand the points. That's why I have suggested creating a custom Debian
> Distribution which focused on lighter-weight release for embedded and older
> platforms. One thing I always liked about Ubuntu and its releases that you
> could install and switch to one of the other releases by doing apt-get install
> kubuntu-desktop, and get that release of kubuntu (and then be able to remove
> the current release fairly easily).
Sure, but being able to do this `apt-get install other-stuff' means the
binaries of the other stuff must be available somewhere...
> While we should stil have the entire Debian package archive available, a CDD
> will better suit the needs of embedded users and such who want to use a
> Debian-based system without all the cruft ontop of it.
> Michael
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
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-- Linus Torvalds
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