Re: Libranet to sooth the savage Debian beast???
On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 09:16, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> At 2003-05-12T13:04:17Z, mkamp@gmx.de writes:
>
> > Does it make sense to standardize on the lowest common denominator?
>
> Yes.
>
> > i386 makes likely more than 98% of all installed systems, doesn't it?
>
> Very possibly. On the other hand, since Debian is renowned for its
> treatment of all supported platforms as first-class, in addition to the
> "geek" cachet that it seems to enjoy, I'd imagine that you see a lot more
> odd hardware running Debian than you'd expect.
I don't see a problem with h/w detection only working on i386. Why?
Even on i386, if some h/w is not detected it must fall back to the old-
style configuration.
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