davide89v wrote: > Because Ubuntu run only in i386, Debian in 21 different > architectures :)
I wonder how you got this idea. First, Ubuntu runs on !i386 (although only a subset of the archs supported by Debian are supported by Ubuntu, and furthermore, even on i386 some Ubuntu packages clearly have grave bugs and even do not compile). Second, how do you count 21 architectures? For Lenny, the official architectures were: alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc That's 12. For Squeeze, they should be: amd64, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64 [*], kfreebsd-i386 [*], mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc That's 12 too. Counting the unofficial archs: alpha, avr32, hurd-i386, m68k, sh4, the total number becomes 17. Where this mysterious number 21 comes from? And third, maintaining a distro is not merely recompiling a set of packages. There are RC bugs in gNS which are never fixed, due to lack of manpower (most of them inherited from Ubuntu). Switching to Debian would at least fix this problem, needless to say that non-free stuff cleanup is less in Debian compared to Ubuntu. [*] These are not certain. _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list gNewSense-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
