[arch-general] Future of 'kernel26'

Yaro Kasear yaro at marupa.net
Thu May 26 08:48:48 EDT 2011


On Thursday, May 26, 2011 02:57:49 Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Am 26.05.2011 06:28, schrieb XeCycle:
> > Perhaps we may provide alternative kernels? With names like
> > these, we may get a brand new project named "Arch Operating
> > System", providing Linux, BSD, Hurd or even more as kernels,
> > and users are free to choose any one. Well, this is really
> > interesting. It'd be the first OS to provide multiple
> > kernels!
> 
> You know why nobody has done it before? Because it's not possible.

I'm sure it's possible.

I'd like to "it's bloody pointless" as my reason. We're Arch, not Debian. 
Notice how Arch officially only supports x86 and x86_64. Are people going to 
start wasting our time with requests to support PPC, SPARC, ARM, SH*, what 
have you, now?


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