[lug] Help installing debian at the install fest?
Nate Duehr
nate at natetech.com
Fri Jul 13 21:08:07 MDT 2007
On Jul 13, 2007, at 9:07 AM, David Morris wrote:
> I'm guessing you don't spend much time on anything other
> than an x86 or AMD64 architecture? I've used Debian on
> several sparc systems over the years and 'testing' is, in
> my experience, constantly riddled with bugs in sparc
> packages. I tried 'unstable' once and the system was barely
> usable.
Yeah, I should have mentioned that. My only Debian/Sparc machine was
running stable until it was retired, but it ran fine on that... many
packages were unavailable though.
And I only ran Debian/PPC for a very short time, it was just utterly
annoying, and OSX came out, and worked better on those machines.
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Nate Duehr
nate at natetech.com
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