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From: "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] combining x86 and amd64
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 18:49:33
Message-Id: 200509012046.57164@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] combining x86 and amd64 by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Thursday 01 September 2005 20:32, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > Ideally they wouldn't be keyworded at all.
3 I live in a real world, not an ideal one.
4
5 > More users means more QA feedback. This means x86/amd64 will have an
6 > *easier* job.
7 SNR, this unknown value that's so much important in communications... this is
8 when I like the school I did.
9
10 > And, uh, there are people out there shipping binaries for
11 > sparc and mips.
12 http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=mozilla-bin
13 http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=openoffice-bin
14 http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=realplayer
15 http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=acroread
16 http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=netscape-flash
17
18 Want some others?
19
20 > Again, more users means more QA feedback. Other than that, the users
21 > won't see any difference except for the profile they use.
22 SNR...
23
24 --
25 Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò
26 Gentoo Developer - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/
27 (Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Gentoo/AMD64, Sound, PAM)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] combining x86 and amd64 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>