> Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2024 at 6:54 PM > From: "gene heskett" <ghesk...@shentel.net> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: new computer arriving soon
> > > > If these are Banana Pi 5 and you want them supported *in Debian*, go and > > talk to the folks on IRC on #debian-arm or the mailing list. Ask them to > > get some boards and work out what the diff is between the supplied kernel > > and a Debian kernel. Ideally, you want the vendor to commit to a long-term > > support for the board. Banana Pi seem to change models very regularly - so > > good luck with Shenzhen SINOVOIP. > Debian-arm? What a joke. That is the most unpleasant place in the Debian > world. If it's not a genuine r-pi, Debian-arm has no tolerance for what > s/b perfectly on-topic posts. There's tons of "pi" stuff around that > isn't foundation src'd, but they don't want to hear about them. My > offers to send them free hardware or donate cash have all been rebuffed. > If you have any pull, fix that & advise me. Their rules for such > donations remove any anonymity, and that's the only way I'll donate. Gene you are exactly correct, even this list is hostile. debian is hostile against anything that is not debian. There is no call for that, there is no sense for being like that. For example a package built for a different distro will not be broken on debian, it all works basically the same. Why does debian do that? Why do the folks on this list like that. It just turns folks away. In the great number of cases most look to Archlinux for setting up and running packages. Why because the wiki is no nonsense and just works in almost every case. debians wiki is woefully incomplete and contains old out dated information which in most cases it just flat out incorrect. Try to get it corrected and you will/must be attacked. Instead of being hostile debian should work WITH folks instead of, "Oh you are not using stock debian, phooey on you we won't help". Want proof, look at linuxfromscratch, the first thing they do is ask what does Arch do. Let the attacks begin, I am waiting.......
