Mark at JavaOne

[Corey Burger]

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> I am concerned that Ubuntu is going to become another Debian as far as
> the number of supported architectures is concerned.  Right now it's
> standing at 7 and if Mark's hinting about Dapper for Niagara is
> concerned, that will push the number to 8.  Debian has 12 at the moment
> and Ubuntu is getting perilously close to it.
>
> I can see scenarios like I mentioned earlier where multiple
> architectures slow down development for all platforms, including the
> most popular ones (e.g. i386).

Sheer numbers of ports are not a bad thing. Ubuntu has and pretty much
always will have two distinct classes of architecures, supported and
non-supported. Architectures will only move to supported if there is a
need and developers.

Now as the reason Debian is slowed down by various arches is mostly a
Debian issue, due to the way they upload their packages. I seriously
doubt such a similar situation could happen to Ubuntu.

Now, IANADD nor am I an Ubuntu one.

Corey