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["Jeremy Blosser (emrys)" <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>]

On Nov 30, Karsten Behrmann [BearPerson AT gmx.net] wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 23:08:26 -0500, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> > Hi Jaanus,
> > 
> > I believe that the brief status is that it mostly Just Works(tm).
> Well, as far as I know, its mostly "'everybody' wants it, nobody tests it,
> nobody writes code for it.", though I've heard of several working boxes
> on x86_64, so it must be reasonably working.

Seth has made pretty strong statements of (non-distribution-official)
support.  I know he runs at least one box there and fixes anything he finds
that doesn't work on it.  I don't think he's really the only one.

> As the total lack of testing the ppc ISOs are getting shows (The first
> person to run through a total install with them was a new user), making not-
> so-common architectures work is often quite hard simply because "you have no
> clue if the thing actually works".

It seems to me that we have quite a few more people actively asking
about/using/patching x86_64 than ppc, but maybe the ppc people are the
silent majority.

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