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Gentoo's archs

Posted Mar 15, 2005 18:14 UTC (Tue) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: Gentoo's archs by jdv
Parent article: Debian proposes dropping most architectures

check again, the secondary archs will get 'snapshot' releases, not full releases with security support.

there's a huge difference between the two.

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Gentoo's archs

Posted Mar 15, 2005 21:25 UTC (Tue) by jdv (subscriber, #712) [Link]

Right, I misread -- I assumed that those snapshot releases would be more like real releases, but it would seem that is not true. Hopefully, a seperate community effort could pick up the pieces, though, and make a real stable distribution out of it, security support and all.