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Re: arches and etch



On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 01:04:28PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote:
> > 7) Perhaps we should consider the balance between making debian just
> >    another glitzy quick-release plaything for mass consumption and
> >    minimal user contribution, and a system designed to give users who
> >    care and contribute the flexibility and power to do their work which
> >    so greatly benefits us all.
> 
> So why aren't we sill shipping on 286 machines?

Because we never had ?  We have dropped support for i386, but only
a fraction of i386 had a MMU and so were able to run Linux, and this
change was forced upon us by the rest of the world.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

Imagine a large red swirl here.



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