I demand that Anthony Towns may or may not have written... > Michael K. Edwards wrote: [snip] >> I think Sarge on ARM has the potential to greatly reduce the learning >> curve for some kinds of embedded development, especially if Iyonix >> succeeds in its niche (long live the Acorn!).
> So, I looked at the website, but all I can see are expensive PCs that > happen to have an arm chip. FWIW, they're not the only ARM-based desktop boxes which are currently available, although I'm not sure about the situation wrt Linux. > Put them behind a firewall on a trusted LAN, use them to develop software > for arm chips, and then just follow unstable or run non-security-supported > snapshots. Apart from writing software for embedded arm things, I can't see > the value "Linux desktop box" comes to mind... > -- and if an arch is just going to be used for development, does it really > need all the support we give stable in order to make it useful for servers > and such? Probably not, but ISTM that you'll first have to ascertain that it *is* only being used for development before you can say that that support definitely isn't needed. > If so, why? If not, what level of support does it need, that goes beyond > "unstable + snapshotting facility", and why? Debian developers [...] You're focusing too much on development here. There are users too, you know... :-) [snip] > I guess this is really the wrong place to ask for "we use these machines" > answers instead of "we develop for these machines", but hey. I don't think that there's any need to *guess*... ;-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | <URL:http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/progs.linux.html> You will spend the rest of your life in the future. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
