On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Ingo Juergensmann wrote:
> Should support, but won't do so. In fact IT world became rather monocultural
> when it comes down to architectures. MIPS is dead (except for embedded
> systems), arm is embedded only, PowerPC is mostly dead with the exception of
> some old PPCs and mainframes, and so on... Even i386 is about to fade away
> in favour of amd64.
I just can't resist to comment: PowerPC is still big in game consoles,
and the PS3 can run Linux.
However, due to the limited amount of memory compared to the PCs of
these days, a `light' (desktop) environment is still a good thing to
have.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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