Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 12:20, John Goerzen wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 11:39:41AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> > Because, somewhat circularly, that's what has emerged as one of Debian's
> > strong points, and we like it. Certainly it makes the releases slower.
> > But it's one thing that really differentiates Debian from the
> > competition. Being the most portable Free OS is worth something, in my
> > opinion.
>
> I think NetBSD still has us beat on that point.
Debian runs on 11 distinct CPU architectures; NetBSD runs on 10. As
Matthew says though, you can have different views on what defines
portability, but those numbers are hard fact.
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