| Darren Salt 2005-03-19, 8:51 pm |
| I demand that Anthony Towns may or may not have written...
> Michael K. Edwards wrote:
[snip]
[vbcol=seagreen]
> 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*... ;-)
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