Auteur: Boian Bonev Datum: Aan: devuan developers internal list Onderwerp: Re: [devuan-dev] Devuan websites need a makeover for Daedalus
Hi,
..cut.. > grumpy. The IBM POWER world has been a little rough over the past decade
> and we no longer see anything big endian at all. SPARC is dead. Those
The preferred way to run Linux on IBM POWER is in little endian mode.
> systems are a great way to test code which does need to be portable. My
And the above is selected exactly for the opposite reason of what you say -
instead of fixing bugs and making that software better, the corporate
preference is to make the existing crap running with as little changes as
possible.
I do not expect to see any big endian system go mainstream anytime soon. Yes,
there is s390 but that is not an option to run in your garage.