Debian Brought Back To Life On M68K-Based Amigas

[r1348]

C'mon you can't honestly say that this project has any use. It's some guy with too much time on his hands. And in case you're curios I actually do something. Like right now on Christmas. I am writing code adding a new feature in my game. A requested feature. By clients. Cause that's how normal people roll. They do things other people request. And in case you're some hippie, no, doing things that other people want is not selling out, or being a slave or whatever.

Does Debian working on m68k affect your life in any way?
If no, why the rants?

[BO$$]

Does Debian working on m68k affect your life in any way?
If no, why the rants?

Well instead of doing something useless they could be doing something that affects a larger userbase. And don't tell me that everything is done so this is why they're doing niche things.

[devius]

Well instead of doing something useless they could be doing something that affects a larger userbase. And don't tell me that everything is done so this is why they're doing niche things.

So you're free to work on your game instead of working on "something that affects a larger userbase", but these guys can't work on the m68k port of debian? How come?

[RealNC]

So you're free to work on your game instead of working on "something that affects a larger userbase", but these guys can't work on the m68k port of debian? How come?

It's like asking me to stop playing chess because it's only fun for me and doesn't contribute anything to *his* life.

[leech]

To all the Naysayers. Screw you. I mean that in a nice way. A 68060 based system with a Mediator and Radeon card should be able to run Debian quite nicely.

It's nice to see m68k in Sid now. Interesting to see the architectures that Wheezy supports versus what is in Sid.

Sid;
alpha amd64 armel armhf hurd-i386 i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 m68k mips mipsel powerpc s390 s390x sh4 sparc sparc64

Wheezy;
amd64 armel armhf i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel powerpc s390 s390x sparc

Squeeze;
amd64 armel i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc

As you can see, Wheezy is adding 'armhf' and 's390x' to it from Squeeze, though both of them are just variations on other architectures (armel with hard floating points.) And whatever S390x is. Sid supports quite a few more. Very nice.

m68k processors are quite nice, and putting support back for it is more than just 'old hardware'. Think of the embedded space where the Coldfire processors are still used.

[stqn]

@BO$$
The problem with posts like yours..
No management, no optimal allocation of resources, so you end up with useless posts like this one. Waste of fucking time dude. Get a life. Post something that people want.

Ahah, excellent

[Camelek]

...two days ago I moved my Amigas to attic, which really hurt me badly. And now reading news like that one I know how bad that decision was.

People who are still working on that stuff are my personal heroes :]
Great work, keep going with that! :]

[BO$$]

So you're free to work on your game instead of working on "something that affects a larger userbase", but these guys can't work on the m68k port of debian? How come?

My game has the purpose of affecting a large userbase. Now of course, there is no guarantee. But it has the potential. While what he does only has the ability to affect a small userbase. What he does cannot become mainstream. If it were a corporation, he wouldn't be working on that since it cannot bring profits. While my game has the potential to bring profits since it's not free. There is a difference.

[stqn]

My game has the purpose of affecting a large userbase. Now of course, there is no guarantee. But it has the potential. While what he does only has the ability to affect a small userbase. What he does cannot become mainstream. If it were a corporation, he wouldn't be working on that since it cannot bring profits. While my game has the potential to bring profits since it's not free. There is a difference.

With such a reasonning wtf are you doing on a Linux site? You should be using Windows. Also, life is not about financial profit.
No need to answer me.

[pmorph]

The problem with open source software. No management, no optimal allocation of resources, so you end up with useless projects like this one. Waste of fucking time dude. Get a job. Build something that people want.

At least there is one person who really wants it. The same cannot be said about all well resourced and manged projects.