Re: Debian MIPS port

["The Fungi" <fungi@yuggoth.org>]

On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 05:06:57PM +0200, Claus H?yer wrote:
[...]
> As I am new to looking at the Debian/MIPS port, and the port itself is 
> only from the 3.0 release, I have to ask a question about the viability 
> of this port. Is the port "alive", is it reasonable stable, are new 
> packages being ported (soon after release...), and are most packages 
> actually working?
[...]

I think it works quite well. I use the mips/mipsel ports personally
on a DECstation 5000/240 (40MHz R3000A little endian byte order) and
an Indy CMN B006Y87 (175MHz R4400 big endian byte order). Both run
as headless development servers under Debian/sid with woody chroots
maintained by pbuilder. I wouldn't say I have any more problems with
those than my other non-i386/Linux systems running their respective
Debian ports (alpha, freebsd-i386, hppa, hurd-i386, m68k,
netbsd-alpha, netbsd-i386, powerpc, sparc... some day I hope to try
arm, ia64, s390 and sh but those are harder to find hardware for
simply by dumpster diving). Still, mips and mipsel easily keep up
stability-wise with the 75% of Debian ports I've tried so far.
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