Hi,
On 03/08/17 19:40, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote:
Again I don't disagree there, but since it's not a release
architecture, we could just move on to newer CPUs and change the
minimum specs -which would IMHO be a good thing, as it would lower the
number of supported platforms to a much smaller and more manageable
set. I have enough PowerPC boxes here, but none without Altivec, so
even if I wanted to, I couldn't even test lack of the feature, and I
don't care enough to go into the trouble of doing that.
Well, it is very sad we aren't release anymore, IMHO, although a fact.
Yet i think it is wrong raising the bar and excluding many CPUs just
because it makes things easier.
powerpc was (and probably still is) a quite popular debian port and I
know of many who run those coloured iMacs with Debian!
There are also other non-Mac machines. E.g. I am pretty sure the
Linkbook doesn't have altivec and there were a couple of other similar
small netbooks which sadly did not get popular compared to ARM.
Riccardo
