Toni wrote: > >On Mon, 14.03.2005 at 07:37:51 +0100, Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In general I would like to say that supporting a lot of architectures was >> an important difference between Debian and other distributions. I know the >> drawbacks of this but I just do not want to hide my opinion that I do not >> like the idea of reducing the number of supported architectures that >> drastical. > >I'm also looking forward to install Debian on a Sparc machine that has >just arrived. > >Btw, why, or how, do other projects with much fewer users and also much >fewer developers, manage to release for more than 4 architecture? >*BSD come to mind...
By having a much smaller set of software, mainly. The core BSDs are *tiny* compared to what we try to ship in Debian. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
