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Re: So nobody wants to see Debian/MIPS ?!?!?

On Sun, 26 Jan 1997, Lars Wirzenius wrote:

>
> Shaya Potter:
> > Am I the only one who took the time out to send a simple e-mail.
> 
> I certainly didn't. I don't mind if other people do, but I'd
> like to concentrate on important things first. I don't think
> a new port as important, when we can't get stuff to work even
> on Intel systems.

It's not a ture port.  A true port would imply that we would be would be 
building it from scratch and we would have to give a lot of our time.  
This is not the case.  We would be getting a distribution and the 
developers for it to.  And anyways, it didn't take much away from my 
concentration to jot off a small e-mail to him and converse back and 
forth with him him a few times.  I actually got a bunch of packages in 
base converted to the new packaging format at the same time.  Yes, last 
week I had a lot of free time because it was my vacation, but the amount 
of time I spent on that was miniscule.

> 
> > I agree, all Mike was asking was for us to jot down a small e-mail and 
> > tell him why he should choose Debian.
> 
> Even if we think Debian should get its act together, before
> spreading out to further platforms?

The problem is, that if we stagnate to long in trying to get our act 
together we'll fall behind everyone else and got lost in the shuffle.  
IMHO opinion, soon it's not going to be OK just to have an INTEL 
distribution, but to be considered a major player you will have to 
support multiple architectures.  Yes, we are already on the way to doing 
that, but it doesn't hurt if someone is willing to give us a distribution.

> 
> > 	Someone should explan to him the philisophical differences b/w 
> > 	Debian and Red Hat to him better than I could.
> 
> "Debian puts with restrictions in a separate directory. Red
> Hat doesn't, and they sell some commercial, proprietary stuff,
> in addition to producing what currently seems to be the best
> free Linux distribution. Red Hat seems to do some systematic
> testing, Debian doesn't do any testing, except afterwards."
> 
> I think that's pretty much the truth, but I admit I don't know
> Red Hat very well. It's also quite negative about Debian, but
> I think it's accurate. We really need to fix our procedures for
> producing releases.

And I am sure Red Hat has a lot of problems too that we who only stick 
with Debian know about.  I've been reading messages on the linux.* lists 
and I've seen a few very anti Red Hat postings and people who have said 
they switched to Debian and are happy.  And there were a few Me Too's to 
those messages to, so Red Hat 'aint' perfect either.

Shaya


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