The hardware architecture Linux is running on does matter. I'm running Linux on AXP and SPARC for quite some time now. They both have a smaller user (and developer) base than Intel platforms and it shows! Network code is far from being as stable as on Intel. A number of applications won't compile on AXP at all because they aren't 64bit clean. Others will compile and even run but crash after a short while. (Thank goodness, that isn't true for most of the KDE apps.) If PPC gains a really large user base it will mean that Linux/PPC will become more stable and reliable. If only that were true for AXP!
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The hardware architecture Linux is running on does matter.
I'm running Linux on AXP and SPARC for quite some time now.
They both have a smaller user (and developer) base than
Intel platforms and it shows! Network code is far from being
as stable as on Intel. A number of applications won't compile
on AXP at all because they aren't 64bit clean. Others will
compile and even run but crash after a short while. (Thank
goodness, that isn't true for most of the KDE apps.)
If PPC gains a really large user base it will mean that
Linux/PPC will become more stable and reliable.
If only that were true for AXP!
Uwe