future of debian-ppc
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 03:33:29PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 12:50:36PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 12:32 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 04:57 -0400, Simon Raven wrote:
> > > debian-ppc is
> > > one of the most (and maybe the most ?) ppc-user mailing
> > > list on the net, where one can find help from other users and ppc-dev.
> > >
> > Once upon a time, this list was actually used for its purpose as
> > declared on
> >
> > http://lists.debian.org/ports.html
> >
> > i.e. to discuss technical issues of the Debian powerpc port. Now this
> > has disappeared almost completely. I can hardly remember the last time a
> > query from another part of the Debian project about the status of a
> > certain aspect of the powerpc port was actually answered on this list,
> > most likely because a large portion if not most of the list traffic is
> > OT these days, and I think this is very bad. YMMV.
What is 'OT'?
>
> Maybe this is because there are so few powerpc porters left in debian ? Or
> those who used to be porters got interests in something else, leaving only me,
> which kind of burned out earlier this year ?
>
> Friendly,
>
> Sven Luther
>
Sven,
If there are few powerpc porters left, what is the future of PPC on
debian, especially for non-mac ppc? Should I even be considering a
switch from comodity-x86 arch to RS/6000 when I personally am not a
kernel hacker (I only do python and fortran)? I'll never be paying for
a commercial linux (e.g. RHES or SuSE) to run the RS/6000; if I could
afford that I would probably just buy AIX. I'm looking at the RS/6000
because of its inherent reliability as opposed to x86 reliability based
on cheap replacement when it breaks.
What is your wisdom on moving from x86 to RS/6000?
Thanks,
Doug Tutty.
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