Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting
On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 09:56:05AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 12:00:23PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > But why would you spend over 1000 pounds on an arm Linux desktop box
> > instead of a few hundred pounds on a random i386 desktop box?
> Because you don't want a 100+W dissipating screaming monster on your desk ?
You can get low power x86 systems that have much better performance (> 1
GHz).
> > A reasonable answer is because you're developing for arm's for embedded
> > applications; but if so, what's the big deal with using unstable or
> > snapshots, and running your public servers on other boxes?
>
> Because using unstable is not a workable solution. Try to make a daily
> unstable install, and count how many days it is broken on the tier1 arches,
> and see how worse it can become on tier2 slower arches.
Most work for embedded systems would be cross-compiled from faster
systems anyway.
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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