[fedora-arm] Who's using Kirkwood?

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Thu Oct 11 14:47:19 UTC 2012


Gordan Bobic <gordan at bobich.net> writes:

>>> So what you're saying is that Fedora *still* supports an x32 CPU that
>>> was released well over a decade ago...
>>
>> No. The XO-1 was released in 2007. That's half a decade ago. Given the
>> project came out of MIT and you have a @mit.edu address I would hope
>> you would be able to count, are you in politics by chance?
>
> I'm pretty sure that sort of attitude isn't doing much to attract
> users to the community. DreamPlug1 is Kirkwood based and it only hit
> the shelves less than 18 months ago.

Moreover I'm talking about the i686 CPU, not the XO-1 product.  The i686
was released a very VERY long time ago, definitely well before 2007.  It
was released while I was actually *at* MIT back in the early 1990s.

> Gordan

-derek

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