Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 15:20:11 +0100 From: Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> To: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: linux_base end of life? Message-ID: <m3u12gjgtg.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org> In-Reply-To: <20040127123708.A1639@blues.jpj.net> (Trevor Johnson's message of "Tue, 27 Jan 2004 13:17:46 -0500 (EST)") References: <8981.1075222428@www28.gmx.net> <20040127123708.A1639@blues.jpj.net>
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Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> writes: > Do you have suggestions for other Linux distributions that could go in the > ports collection? Ones that support both Alpha and i386, are RPM-based, > have some popularity and can be downloaded would be ideal IMO. Debian. Debian-stable however is virtually unusable, but most of the applications they have are also in ports, so it doesn't hurt because we can run them natively. Debian isn't RPM based, but it's about the only one I know that has the same version for Alpha and i386 and has timely security updates. -- Matthias Andree Encrypt your mail: my GnuPG key ID is 0x052E7D95
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