Roles for distributions

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, mberglund wrote:
> It also seems like the lost art of making an OS the SAME from platform to
> platform is just that, LOST. This is another lofty goal in the project.
>
> I mean, it is hard enough to learn a new hardware platform, without having
> to learn a new version of linux(or unix, for that matter). And even redhat
> has not been able to make thier distro the same from platform to platform.

With Debian being the only distribution that runs on all my boxes, I still
have to find the differences among Debian on the different platforms that are
not caused by actual differences in the hardware configuration.

FYI, I have experience with Debian on ia32, m68k, PPC, AXP and even MIPSEL.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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