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Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting



Op ma, 14-03-2005 te 23:30 +1100, schreef Hamish Moffatt:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:06:18PM +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > * Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> [2005-03-14 23:00]:
> > > But really, is there much benefit in making *releases* for the SCC
> > > architectures?
> > 
> > For some SSC arches, it *might* not make a difference (possibly m68k)
> > but others (e.g. s390 and mipsel) are typically used for servers
> > or gateways, and you don't really want to run unstable in such
> > environments.  testing+security updates might be a compromise, but
> > unstable is clearly not an option for a S390 box or a mipsel Cobalt
> > gateway.
> 
> OK, that makes sense. Can you buy those architectures new?
> 
> (Surely yes
> in the case of s390 at least, probably mipsel also as the mips CPU
> manufacturers are alive and well.)

I don't know about those. For m68k:

http://www.q40.de/
http://www.bvm.co.uk/vmeprods.html
http://www.motorola.com/cgiss/moscad.shtml

(of which the first and the second are actually supported by d-i)

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