On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 03:54:24PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 03:41:16PM -0500, Avery Pennarun wrote: > > > What I should have said was: it's nice to have a sparc port, but sparc isn't > > important enough to hold up the i386 release and especially not important > [...] > > As somebody that has run Debian on at least two non-i386 platforms, I feel > justly offended by your attitude and the attitue of those like you that > consider non-i386 Debian distributions second-class citizens somehow. There > is no logical reason for this distinction. The Linux kernel supports my > Alpha in 64-bit mode as well as, if not better than, your i386 in 32-bit > mode. If you are talking about technical merit, I'm sure most will tell you > that i386 is at or near the bottom of the heap, not the top. So please, > don't get this "high and mighty i386" attitude. Well said. I've had to put up with enough of this as an Amiga owner, but I thought that one of the good things about Unix, the free ones in particular, was that there wasn't this kind of attitude towards non-i386 people that is so evident in other places. It doesn't matter that arch I have - I know that since it runs Linux, it will run any software that I want, just as well as on i386 or any other system. As a side note, it is only incidental that Unix can run on i386 CPU's. It wasn't designed on one, or for one, and most high-powered Unix servers don't run i386 at all, but some other, better arch. So, why should the release of my arch's Debian be delayed, just because _your's_ is ready for release? Heh, I hate to think what would have happened if he'd said that to the NetBSD people. > -- > John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting & programming jgoerzen@complete.org | > Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade) www.debian.org | > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > Visit the Air Capital Linux Users Group on the web at http://www.aclug.org -- If I had any humility I would be perfect. -- Ted Turner
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