Re: [gNewSense-users] gNewSense MetaD with LVM

[Graziano]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:43:19 +0200, Ivaylo Valkov <address@hidden> 
wrote:
> Sam Geeraerts:
> > Nic wrote:
> > > I would like to know why is it that there are those architectures 
> > available
> > > for metad and are being continually updated?
> >
> > metad was meant to be the next gNewSense release (with support for 
> > i686,
> > amd64 and mipsel), but that didn't work out.
>
> I suppose the main reason was not enough people. Could that change if
> there were people to support i686 and amd64? Is the discussion about
> this decision available in the mailing list archives?

No it was because in the meantime Debian released another stable 
version (Debian 6 "Squeeze").

gNewSense 3.0 will be based on that and will support i386, amd64 and 
mipsel.

Support for other archs is possible if enough people will commit to 
maintain them.


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Graziano Sorbaioli
gNewSense Community Manager
Founder, LibrePlanet Italia
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