Debian to reduce the number of supported platform

[ket]

Debian Etch, the next major version of the Linux distribution will have the number of supported platforms reduced to eight, down from twelve in the current version.

Read more at http://debian.alllinuxcd.com

[chopin1810]

Good, now they can focus more on what they can do better instead of trying to do everything...

[jaboua]

Good, now they can focus more on what they can do better instead of trying to do everything...

Ditto there...

[winter]

ahhh [expleated] and i was about to develop on a arm board with debian on it.

[expleated][expleated][expleated]developers

well on the bright side at lest i get a crack at linux real time kernel goodness. on a related note any people have experiance in roll ye own distro and wireless access points using linux?

[chopin1810]

Ditto there...

Those architectures are so _exceedingly_rarely_used_ I think the people using them are probably geeky enough make their own distro... they should focus to developing really AWESOME support for Intel and AMD instead of okay support for 100000000 differend cpus...

[Vergil83]

for those that want to know more http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel.../msg00013.html

[Vergil83]

for those that care, it seems like the "expected" stable date for etch has been set at 4 Dec 06.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel.../msg00001.html

[chopin1810]

WOW, that's a REALLY fast release date for Debian, seriously, that's amazing...