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Re: debian



On Friday 20 June 2003 20:57, Bijan Soleymani wrote:

> There's no reason to get sarcastic.
>
> I run Debian on sparc and other architectures. Debian on each
> architecture is slightly different. For example on sparc there are
> images to boot off the network. I don't know if there are similar
> images for i386, but they would be useless anyways. This isn't a
> reason not to have them.
>
> As I said in another message, on sparc there is barely any hardware
> (2 sound cards, 2-3 network cards, some scsi cards) and most of it
> just works because it is included in the kernel. On i386 there's a
> gazillion different pieces of hardware.
>
> I don't see how adding hardware detection to i386 hurts any of the
> other architectures.


Agreed, having hardware auto detection doesn't hurt (although it will 
furthre complicate the installer), but developing a program that runs 
on all these platforms is no easy task. 

> P.S. Red Hat and Suse support other architectures too. I don't like
> Red Hat, and I certainly don't like Suse, but I mention it to show
> that hardware detection is compatible with portability.


Only AMD64, IA-32 and IA-64. Compare it to 13 (or so) architects that 
woody runs on. 

Also, Debian has the ability to use 4 kernels (NetBSD, FreeBSD, Hurd and 
Linux) while SuSE and RedHat are Linux-Only.


> Just my two cents,

Same here

Cheers

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right thing; - after they've tried everything else.
 			 Winston Churchill */
Aryan Ameri



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