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Except, linux users don't use four platforms on the desktop. They use (nearly entirely) 1. Those use x86-64 are almost entirely clued in enough to grab the corr
by lil_cain 17y ago
Except, linux users don't use four platforms on the desktop. They use (nearly entirely) 1. Those use x86-64 are almost entirely clued in enough to grab the correct architecture. And even if they weren't, you could get around this simply by making your installer a shell script, that choose the right dpkg based on the output of uname -m. Hardly overly complex.
- pohl 17y agoI guess that's fine, as long as nobody has ambitions for Linux adoption to grow beyond the relatively small already-clued-in demographic. There's nothing wrong with wanting to stay small. FWIW, I used Debian/PPC at home for years. But, then, I was also among the small set of people who actually ran NeXTSTEP on a "gecko" PA-RISC machine and a SPARC laptop made by Tadpole. That's the story behind my perspective, anyway.