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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: "Jeremy Blosser (emrys)" <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] State of x86_64
  • Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 12:09:23 -0800 (PST)

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On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Jeremy Blosser (emrys) wrote:
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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.

To me, the reason PPC is higher than x86_64 is that we've supported
PPC for years now and I don't want to 'regress' by dropping support
for our users on that platform (who may just not be on the lists, IRC,
or are quiet). Our LUG has two PPC boxes (OldWorld), but David Brown
and I haven't had much time to play with them.


- -sandalle

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