On Wednesday 05 June 2002 09:37 am, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > Debian is run by a few hundred programmers who do this for fun. Not > profit. Because we do this for fun we choose where to spend our time. > For some people the mips architecture and the required hacking is > fun. Others are constrained by the hardware available to them (some > of our developers had m68k only access). > > Debian will never make it to perfect 6 month release cycles. To use > Debian you must acclimate to apt-get and the "we release every day" > credo. Although we call it "unstable" what we really mean is > "changing". If you choose to not update then you have a fairly > stable box. I wish there was more we could do, but there isn't. > Especially now that most of us are not being paid for Debian work > anymore. Cutting back to ia32 (x86) would help, but the cost is not > worth it. Besides, Debian is one of the few dists out there > supporting anything other than Sun and ia32. Removing those arches > would leave out many of our users and potential users. The answers > are not so cut and dried. >
I certainly appreciate the multiple architecture support of Debian. I have it installed on a powerpc, m68k, and x86 box. I initially installed it on my m68k box, since Debian was the only distribution that supported it. I made the switch to my other boxes because I liked the consistency of one distribution and hated the dependency mess of rpm. I have advocated Debian to others in my work place and will continue to do so. John Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]