On 21 Jul 2003, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Op do 01-01-1970, om 07:59 schreef Chris Tillman: > > Well, it's true we owe our elders respect (as I give a quick glance > > towards my Mac IIci). But, OTOH, I think the current philosophy of > > all-or-none may be a little too inflexible. Especially as m68k users > > get fewer and fewer, and developers appear to be an endangered > > species. We need a plan for quiet, benign senility where some > > architectures are concerned. > > I disagree, sorry. Dropping Debian support for m68k would probably > result in dropping Linux/m68k support, as Debian is the only > distribution you can use if you want to run Linux/m68k...
Indeed. And if you repeat the argument, after a while you'll have Debian/ia32 only... > > This does not involve leaving them out in > > the cold to die, just restricting them to given (working) versions > > and letting the rest go on. > > Uh, I've lost you here, I'm afraid. Exactly what do you mean? I think he wants us to stay with woody ;-( Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds