On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 12:20, John Goerzen wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 11:39:41AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > > Because, somewhat circularly, that's what has emerged as one of Debian's > > strong points, and we like it. Certainly it makes the releases slower. > > But it's one thing that really differentiates Debian from the > > competition. Being the most portable Free OS is worth something, in my > > opinion. > > I think NetBSD still has us beat on that point.
Debian runs on 11 distinct CPU architectures; NetBSD runs on 10. As Matthew says though, you can have different views on what defines portability, but those numbers are hard fact.