On 08/31/2011 07:34 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > I've always wondered what was the point of having some architectures > part of stable releases as official architectures. Sure, they are very > useful as experimental architectures, and very fun to work on, but it's > unlikely that people will use them on production machines because the > hardware is too old & slow, or some key piece of software is too > unstable.
That is not necessarily true, there are a lot of people who need to work with old, probably sponsored hardware. Also there are a lot of embedded systems which run Debian or derivates of Debian. So looking at the list of architectures, the only one I could imagine to get rid of at some point would be sparc, maybe powerpc and ia64. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e5df2cb.6070...@bzed.de
