I demand that Anthony Towns may or may not have written... > Darren Salt wrote: >> I demand that Anthony Towns may or may not have written... >>> Put them behind a firewall on a trusted LAN, use them to develop software >>> for arm chips, and then just follow unstable or run >>> non-security-supported snapshots. Apart from writing software for >>> embedded arm things, I can't see the value >> "Linux desktop box" comes to mind...
> But why would you spend over 1000 pounds on an arm Linux desktop box > instead of a few hundred pounds on a random i386 desktop box? Compatibility with what I already have and use? The older hardware won't last forever (and this Risc PC, for example, is 10 years old)... > A reasonable answer is because you're developing for arm's for embedded > applications; but if so, what's the big deal with using unstable or > snapshots, and running your public servers on other boxes? What's wrong with people just using them as desktop boxes, using both OSes? [1] >>> -- and if an arch is just going to be used for development, does it >>> really need all the support we give stable in order to make it useful for >>> servers and such? >> Probably not, but ISTM that you'll first have to ascertain that it *is* >> only being used for development before you can say that that support >> definitely isn't needed. > Uh, you've got that round the wrong way: you don't do something because you > can't say support definitely isn't needed, you do something because you > *can* say support definitely *is* needed. That may well be, but ISTM that you implied that the arch isn't going to be used for non-development tasks... >>> If so, why? If not, what level of support does it need, that goes beyond >>> "unstable + snapshotting facility", and why? Debian developers [...] >> You're focusing too much on development here. There are users too, you >> know... :-) > Haven't seen any evidence of it -- developers and vendors, yes, users, or > uses, no... I can't answer all of that myself, but there are people who can. (Adding debian-arm. Note followups to both lists.) [1] Not at the same time, of course. ;-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | <URL:http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/> (PGP 2.6, GPG keys) This portion of UTS II is a trade secret of Amdahl Corporation. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
