[rescue] Re: G5 case

[Kurt Mosiejczuk]

On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Eric Dittman wrote:

> > > > Part of that is Debian supports a bunch of architectures...
> > > > and supporting anything other than x86 in 2.4 or beyond is passe.

> > > There is support for systems other than x86 in 2.4,
> > > and most of them are actively maintained, so I don't
> > > know where you got that idea.

> > > > And 2.4 has taken a while to become really stable...

> > > Yes, and it has been stable for a long time.

> > Really?  It's been stable on sun4c machines for a long time?
> > No, it hasn't.  Hell, it hasn't been stable on ANY sparc32
> > machines for that long.

> Sun4c has been unsupported for a while.  But that's
> only one subset.

Uh huh, but debian DOES support sun4c.  But sun4m had severe problems
until maybe the last six months... and that's a LOT of systems
that 2.4 didn't work with.

--Kurt