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Author Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting
Sven Luther

2005-03-20, 7:48 am

On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 12:00:23PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> Darren Salt wrote:
>
> But why would you spend over 1000 pounds on an arm Linux desktop box
> instead of a few hundred pounds on a random i386 desktop box?


Because you don't want a 100+W dissipating screaming monster on your desk ?

> A reasonable answer is because you're developing for arm's for embedded
> applications; but if so, what's the big deal with using unstable or
> snapshots, and running your public servers on other boxes?


Because using unstable is not a workable solution. Try to make a daily
unstable install, and count how many days it is broken on the tier1 arches,
and see how worse it can become on tier2 slower arches.

Friendly,

Sven Luther


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