John W. Linville skrev:
>Iggy Drougge wrote:
>>
>> Gordon C. Zaft skrev:
>>
>> > Linux != x86.
>>
>> Effectively, Linux is as i386-centred as Win NT. Nominally, it might not
>> be.
>That is a VERY unenlightened (and incorrect) opinion. There are a
>number of highly function distributions for a variety of systems raging
>from the PalmPilot to an S/390 mainframe. The Linux kernel runs on at
>least 8 major processor families with a number of variations within each
>family. Probably the most interesting developments currently in the
>Linux community are in the embedded systems arena. Perhaps you should
>pick-up a copy of Embedded Linux Journal sometime and have a look?
Oh, but can you go out and buy yourself an m68k/MIPS/PPC meainstream distro in
the bookshop, or can you buy any software for non-i386 platforms? Usually not.
Yes, you can run "ls" and "more", as wellas "ifconfig", but beyond that? What
about Netscape?
Embedded systems are a moot point, since they're in an entirely different
field and reduces Linux to a kernel as opposed to the desktop/server OS which
is what most people know Linux as.
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Received on Thu Aug 23 2001 - 19:06:09 BST