On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 02:13:48PM -0400, Nathan Hawkins wrote: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 04:24:23PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 09:44:30AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 02:04:54PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > > > ports - NetBSD gives us the potential to bring Debian to _many_ new > > > > platforms. > > > > > > It's not that many actually. The only CPU that NetBSD claims to support > > > but Linux doesn't is the pc532. Also the (umerged) Linux VAX and arm26 > > > aren't really useable unlike their NetBSD counterparts. > > > > However, NetBSD doesn't run on IA64 or S/390 as far as I know, while Debian > > does. > > Of course, FreeBSD (5.0) does run on IA64, so I suspect it won't be that > long before NetBSD has a port to it. I also recall seeing that people > are in the process of porting both FreeBSD and NetBSD to S/390. Not to mention a (reasonably close to?) working amd64 port (recently renamed). -- Joel Baker <fenton@debian.org>
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