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Debian Release Mgr. Proposes Dropping Some Archs

Posted by timothy on from the notion-that-could-become-an-idea-and-maybe-a-concept dept.

smerdyakov writes "In this story posted by Andrew Orlowski of the Register Debian Release manager Steve Langasek has announced that support will be dropped for all but four computer architectures. Among the reasons cited for doing this are improving testing coordination, 'a more limber release process' and ultimately a ('hopefully') shorter release cyle. The main architectures to survive will be Intel x86, AMD64, PowerPC and IA-64." Actually, the story says clearly that this is only a proposal at this point, but it's definitely something to watch.

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  1. The hell? by Lisandro · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is it April the 1st already?

    1. Re:The hell? by temojen · · Score: 4, Funny

      On April 1st NetBSD would be the one saying they'll only support 4 architectures.

  2. The real headline.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Affected Admins Propose Dropping Debian"

    1. Re:The real headline.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      It's like dropping acid, except you hallucinate that you're in an endless hallway, walking towards a light at the end called a 'major version release', while a vicious kid named Sid is whipping you.

  3. nooooooo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    so i won't have debian in my toaster????

    well, I can still be using NetBSD. Of course the toaster runs it!

  4. Well... by Pflipp · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...there goes my handy Sparc server...

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  5. In other news... by Jon+Abbott · · Score: 5, Funny

    In other news, the NetBSD team announced that they have successfully ported NetBSD to the abacus...

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  6. Hooray "limber release process!" by Look+KG486 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can't wait to get my hands on the new, stable 2.2 kernel!

    Oh, wait...

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  7. Damn. by gt_swagger · · Score: 5, Funny

    So much for running Linux on Bubba the Big Mouth Bass. That was my dedicated firewall too!

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