On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 04:39:25PM -0500, Ross J. Reedstrom wrote:
> One question: Why? Familiar is Debian based, right? The driving principle
Familiar uses Debian's resources (given the fact it is IMO one of the most sane
Linux distributions, and has an extensive ARM port), but that doesn't mean we
use all their technology. We stay as much in common with them as possible,
when it works for us in the given environment.
> behind Debian is that you can _always_ upgrade. And Debian's been
Except when Perl breaks.. er, sorry. ;)
> through every kind of library and kernel change you can imagine. Hey
> I was around for the big aout to ELF switch, the libc change over, and
> others, and I've nver done a reinstall. I've always said "One computer,
> one Debian install". What technical difficulties make it impossible to
> do the same on the iPaq?
Who said it was impossible? It's just a pain because we haven't fully
developed the technology to do it in a robust manner, yet. Debian has a real
bonus in that most of the machines they work with have: a) swap, and b) real
storage space. Not to mention the fact that their packaging tools have
years under their belt, where ours are pretty new.
This is a big issue, it's just not getting tackled in v0.5. If it's a high
enough priority, lets start working on it.
Alexander
Received on Fri Aug 24 2001 - 14:03:14 EDT
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