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To: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
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On 6/30/07, Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de> wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Sat, 30 Jun 2007, Blue Swirl wrote:
> >
> > > On 6/30/07, Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com> 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.

But there is a difference in maintaining a kernel suitable for high
quality distribution with over 18733 packages working in different
real hardware, versus a test/evaluation distribution with <30 packages
running on Qemu. I'd see that as an "enhanced qemu-tests.tar.gz".