Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 02:41:35PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 01:33:16PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > >> For anyone who uses Debian as base of a commercial solution it is a > > >> requirement. Grabing some random unstable snapshot is a non-starter. > > > Sure. Who's doing that on anything but i386/amd64/powerpc? > > > > What about embedded stuff? > > Is is necessary/useful to have a *release* of Debian for those? > > Typically embedded systems are highly customised. I have used our > powerpc builds in an embedded system and I was happy to start with > unstable.
Typical embedded system vendors tend to put together an OS, dump the device on the market once it works, and conveniently forget about security fixes, let alone new features. Projects like embedian attempt to provide a fix for that. Without a release there is no safe upgrade path, and a security fix means in worst case to backport it to a CVS snapshot which happened to be in unstable a while ago, and is long forgotten by everyone else. Thiemo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
