On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 08:34:59AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 03:17:43PM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: > > base. However, the fact is he was commenting on which archs are the most > > used for Debian, which according to popcon definitely is not arm. The > > arm arch has been around a long time and been supported by Debian for > > several releases and yet still shows only 4 users in popcon. > > Probably because it's a rare person who installs anything like popcon on a > PDA. AIUI, they're all pretty pushed for space and resources, so you tend > to pick your packages. Also, it's harder to get the popcon e-mails out when > you're disconnected and don't have a queueing MTA installed (again, resource > hogging). It might also have something do with the PDA's usually having only between 32-64MB of ram and a basic Debian install taking over 100MB of space... :) Its not impossible to install Debian on them if you know what you are doing its just that there won't be much space left to do much of anything useful on them afterwards. Chris
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