Re: For the Abolishment of "Ports"
While I agree that being completely i386 oriented on the web page, I will point
out that the vast majority of systems out there are x86 based(I don't like the
i386 since I've prefered AMD CPUs over Intel since the 486 days). This being
the case, I'd suggest going to a more even "homepage", with the focus being all
the different platforms. So on the homepage, we would simply have X86, MIPS,
Alpha, M68K, etc... as the links, each of which would have it's own news page.
This may seem like it would fragment out the different flavors of Debian, but it
would at least make it appear that we are being impartial about which platform
gets the most focus. I would also like to propose that we get away from having
a single version number to cover each platform. The reason for this is that we
can release for individual platforms at different times, and not hold up the
release for one platform that may have problems. The version numbers will
remain consistant for the features, but I will point out that glibc 2.1 was
released into Sparc when slink was released, while it was not yet implemented in
the other distributions. If we set a feature list for Potato, it should be
consistant across the different platforms.
Dave Bristel
On 11 Aug 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Date: 11 Aug 1999 04:59:31 -0400
> From: Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>
> To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> Cc: debian-www@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: For the Abolishment of "Ports"
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> Far better than politically correct vocabulary musings would be if
> someone would get off their duff, and volunteer their Perl-infested
> soul on debian-www, for the express purposes of de-i386-izing our web
> site.
>
> To wit, <URL:http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages> and all it's
> stuff is hopelessly i386-centric.
>
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