Re: debian

[Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>]

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On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 01:32:47PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> > Debian runs on many architectures (have you even looked
> > athttp://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual recently?) 
> (This sounds like an insult, this is mean, and I don't think I deserve
> this).

Wait, wait, wait...you consider it an insult that you're expected to
actually read something?  Or are you insulted that Debian doesn't hold
you to just i386?  That's pretty damn pretentious to think other
people are going to do the thinking for you.

> I just said that there is no reason why Debian can't have autodetection.

And everybody else has pointed out that Debian doesn't *just* support
i386.  Knoppix supports only i386, which is why autodetection is
worked out there.  Debian needs to work out autodetection for fourteen
architectures across four kernels.  I don't see Knoppix doing that.

You're welcome to contribute the code to make autodetection work on
m68k, sparc, alpha, powerpc, arm, mips, mipsel, hppa, ia64, and s390.
Get crackin, if you don't act soon you'll also need to do sh3 and sh4.
And that's just the Linux kernel.  Don't forget hurd-i386,
freebsd-i386, netbsd-i386 and netbsd-alpha.  Sound like too much work?
Then quit bitching, you're part of the problem.

> However I have sometimes done 20+ installs of Debian on i[3456]86 PCs
> and have used Knoppix because it saves me LOTS of time.

Why not check out systemimager?  Install once, ghost to many.

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