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Re: Suggested press release in reaction to RHAT dropping sparc and alpha



On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 12:25:16PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 06:06:18PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
> >If you port RH to a different type of CPU then they aren't going to accept 
> >that into their list of supported platforms just because you do it.
> 
> s/RH/Debian/.

IMHO, the main difference between Debian and RH supporting some
architecture is that RH's support includes actually producing packages
containing the distribution, having a hotline trained to answer
architecture-specific questions etc.

Ie., it does involve much more than just providing sufficient disk
space.

(And now all the debian port maintainers are going to kill me :-) )

Jan



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