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| author | Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mageia.org> | 2013-04-14 13:46:12 +0000 |
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diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/20110222/002747.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/20110222/002747.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..76a088ccc --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/20110222/002747.html @@ -0,0 +1,82 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> +<HTML> + <HEAD> + <TITLE> [Mageia-dev] We must port Mageia to ARM and PowerPC! + </TITLE> + <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" > + <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20We%20must%20port%20Mageia%20to%20ARM%20and%20PowerPC%21&In-Reply-To=%3Cloom.20110222T233827-122%40post.gmane.org%3E"> + <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow"> + <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> + <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="002746.html"> + <LINK REL="Next" HREF="002749.html"> + </HEAD> + <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> + <H1>[Mageia-dev] We must port Mageia to ARM and PowerPC!</H1> + <B>André Machado</B> + <A HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20We%20must%20port%20Mageia%20to%20ARM%20and%20PowerPC%21&In-Reply-To=%3Cloom.20110222T233827-122%40post.gmane.org%3E" + TITLE="[Mageia-dev] We must port Mageia to ARM and PowerPC!">afmachado at dcemail.com + </A><BR> + <I>Tue Feb 22 23:53:01 CET 2011</I> + <P><UL> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="002746.html">[Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms) +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="002749.html">[Mageia-dev] We must port Mageia to ARM and PowerPC! +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#2747">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#2747">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#2747">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#2747">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + <HR> +<!--beginarticle--> +<PRE>I was watching now and I realized that both mageia and Mandriva have ports for +both i586 and x64 architetures. + +When Mageia is released, she will compete directly with Mandriva, even though +this is not your intention, Many Mandriva users will not want to migrate to +Mageia and here is the clever. + +Nowadays, they are increasingly common netbooks and tablets with ARM processors. +In addition, there are still people with PowerPC Macs or PlayStations, which +also use this processor. + +If we port Mageia for these architectures, we can grab a larger share of users, +including fans of Mandriva, which could run a distro similar to that love on +machines that do not support it. + +Of course, this is not a trivial task and maybe cannot be done right now but +think in the short term, this should be viable and will help spread the distro. +It should not be difficult to find someone who has a computer with these +features and want to build the distro. Of course, Mageia Foundation is busy with +Alpha1 and a port would require more tests. Maybe for next year? I ask what are +the difficulties in doing this? + +Of course we don't need have a large range of architetures such like Debian or +NetBSD, but these - ARM and PowerPC - are essentials. + +</PRE> + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="002746.html">[Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms) +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="002749.html">[Mageia-dev] We must port Mageia to ARM and PowerPC! +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#2747">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#2747">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#2747">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#2747">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |