Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 30 Jun 2007, Blue Swirl wrote: > > > On 6/30/07, Christian MICHON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > DetaolB aimed to be a "much-less-than-a-floppy" x86 linux live distro. > > > Now, it's evolving more into "a-la-slax" type of distro. > > > > As the number of Sparc32 distributions keeps approaching zero, could you > > consider porting DetaolB to non-x86 CPUs? > > Yes, please!
The reason why distributions drop sparc32 is the unmaintained kernel. Nobody stepped up for Linux kernel maintenance in the last years. Debian managed to keep up a sort-of working kernel for the last release, the people who put their time into it are disinclined to repeat this exercise. Thiemo
