Re: Roles for distributions
flat view
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date: 2000-09-12 22:09:04
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, mberglund wrote:
It also seems like the lost art of making an OS the SAME from platform to platform is just that, LOST. This is another lofty goal in the project. I mean, it is hard enough to learn a new hardware platform, without having to learn a new version of linux(or unix, for that matter). And even redhat has not been able to make thier distro the same from platform to platform.
With Debian being the only distribution that runs on all my boxes, I still
have to find the differences among Debian on the different platforms that are
not caused by actual differences in the hardware configuration.
FYI, I have experience with Debian on ia32, m68k, PPC, AXP and even MIPSEL.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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