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PART IV -- TERMS APPLICABLE TO SOURCE CODE GRANT
 
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I switched from Debian to Gentoo when I bought my first Athlon chip a few years ago. My reasoning was, why use a distribution optimized for a 20 year old architecture, when I can use one that takes advantage of my CPU's capabilities?

I saw this article and thought I'd look into Debian again, just to see what it's like. I figured since I've always liked apt just a tad better than portage, and I'm now switching to a new architecture (AMD64), the Debian packages for that architecture would be optimized for my chip. To my shock, there is no Debian release (at least not listed under their supported architecture section) for AMD64. They support the MIPS and Alpha chips (has anyone built a MIPS or Alpha CPU in this century?). They support the Motorola 68k series (which makes the Alpha look trendy). And strangest of all, they support the IA-64. AMD's 64-bit chip sales in the first month exceeded Intel's entire IA-64 sales to that point (and it had been out for a long time).

So what I have to wonder is: are they 1) just that far behind the times, 2) anti-AMD/pro-Intel, or 3) just assuming that since i386 binaries run on AMD64 chips, that's good enough?
Given that they expect Athlon32 and PentiumIV users to use the i386 binaries, I'd guess it's option 3. Years ago, I sent an old Celeron 300 and Pentium 166 to Hungary to help support the debian 586 project (according to this page they're still using them), but nothing ever came of it.

Is Debian going to cause its own extinction by not keeping up with the new technology?

fast mirror HERE

You have to use jigdo, and you can't use Windows to download the image, but it's there.

This mirror (OFFICIAL, check mirror list on openbsd site) has the ISOs. GOOD ADVICE btw!

1) I can download Caldera OpenLinux ISO images from here.
2) The SCO "register to access downloads" feature is a bunch of crap. Wander on over to Caldera's FTP site and download the source RPMs at will, the legal notice notwithstanding.

So, what happens if I install OpenLinux 3.1.1 workstation on my box at home (it is free and I have a spare machine I'm not using) and SCO closes the Caldera website down? If I go to SCO and say I need the sources, they ask "Are you a Caldera customer, I say, 'No, I am using a free downloaded version of OpenLinux 3.1.1' and they reply "You need to buy a SCO Linux License.", I think I have the grounds at that point to sue them for violation of the GPL's terms of distribution since they cannot deny me the sources on a product they distributed just because I didn't buy it.

Also, here is a fun page on SCO's own website OpenLinux Supplemental Open Source Software. Hmm, does IBM need some more ammunition provided by SCO themselves?

Here's an FTP link.

A BitTorrent link should be coming soon. It should show up here in a couple hours.

here

A mirror of the document is here.

The Hurd is still under development and many features are brok^H^H^H^Himproving.

johno

The Hurd is still under development and many features are brok^H^H^H^Himproving.

johno