Re: [MiNT] New MiNT distribution is n.. ..pro

[Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.fi>]

Well, Alpha and Sparc are partly supported, true.  

However, most software giants talking about porting their Windows
best-sellers to Linux really mean Linux i*86, which is where it's
heading to.  

I have contacted numerous manufacturers who recently joined the
Linux bandwagon to ask for m68k binaries and every one of them,
without exception, responded that only i*86 and _maybe_ Alpha and
PPC, once they see the results of their initial i*86 offering on
their sales.  In any case, Linux m68k is not in their plans.

On 2000-2-21, Katherine Ellis <kellis@fdn.com> wrote:

> don't forget Sparc.
> But overall the main appl (commercial, mainstream prog) are for i386. 
> 
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, [iso-8859-1] Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> 
> > Read yourself.  The "market" you refer to is still Intel-based.
> > Look around yourself.  Red Hat is an Intel OS.

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