Maybe its the maintanance of older technologies that gives Debian and the other Linux/GNU distributions out there their inherent value.
I'm quite new to open source so please excuse my comments. I'm still to fully comprehend the philosophy and the technology. Its quite far removed from anything I have experienced before. On 18/07/07, Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 01:27:56AM +0100, andrew holway wrote: > I'm sure that this will be an unwelcome comment but I'm just wondering > why there is all this interest in this, and please excuse my naivety, > relativity ancient technology. Considering the commercial market is > moving very quickly away from 32bit arch and Debians obvious interest > in remaining a competitive commercial contender, what is the interest? > > is this hobbyism? That's a comment that really shouldn't be dignified with an answer any more thorough than "Please see http://www.debian.org/"; :> Yes, we all pretty much know that nothing spectacularly bad will happen if sparc32 is relegated to the archive, but we're a project of hobbyists and volunteers who generally tend to take care of our tools, even if they become old and scruffy and you can't make a profit out of them. It's perfectly natural for people to want to keep sparc32. To paraphrase Dr. McCoy, ever so (in)appropriately - we're engineers, not salespeople. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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