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



On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 12:06:08PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:

> 	m68k, mips, mipsel, hppa: I've got one in the basement, and I like 
> 	to brag that I run Debian on it; also I occassionally get some work out of 
> it, but it'd be trivial to replace with i386.
> 
> 	sparc, alpha: We've bought some of these a while ago, they're useful 
> running Debian, we'd really rather not have to stress with switching to 
> i386, but whatever.

> "why not just replace this with i386/amd64 hardware [...]

If you argue in this style, let's remove all architectures (including
*i386*) except for amd64 from Debian - after all, that is our most
"modern" architecture and nobody hinders you of throwing out all
your existing i386 hardware and buy a bunch of new shiny amd64
systems instead.

Regards,
Karsten
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