they should just bite the bullet. [LWN.net]

they should just bite the bullet.

Posted Feb 19, 2007 17:48 UTC (Mon) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: they should just bite the bullet. by amacater
Parent article: Fedora 7 release delayed

I have 19571 packages aviable for my Debian Sid PowerPC (including debian-multimedia.org and a couple small third party repos for specific programs)

And that's powerpc.

All those are also found, of course, on x86, x86-64, and What is in Debian Main is aviable in ARM, Sparc and several other architectures.

Arm is as popular as anything nowadays, for instance. Used in things like OpenMoko and those Nokia tablets, so is Powerpc (which is possibly more popular) Wouldn't it be nice if you could have a Fedora embedded edition for those things?

Then you should also probably check out http://apt-get.org/ which has untold amounts of packages from third parties. Then you have all the odd BS people are creating for Ubuntu and Linspire's commercial desktop software integration efforts.

I am not dissing Fedora, they are a lot better then they used to be package wise. And I do not have ANY delusions over any mythical superiority of debs over rpm or anything silly like that.

But, seriously, do you want:
A. Developers working on Fedora and integrating new technologies, features, and bug fixes
or
B. Developers compiling and packaging software.
?

I know it probably will never happen, though.

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