On 6/27/06, Jason D. Clinton me@jasonclinton.com wrote:
What architectures / hardware would you support? ppc? alpha? x86 / x86_64?
x86, x86_64; PPC is dying due to Apple's abandonment.
I think a good case can be made for PPC gaing ground in Linux due to the abandonment. Ove the next 5 years or so people will be wanting a modern OS to run on their PPC hardware. OS X 10.5 (and maybe .6 or .7 if they are nice and keep developing it) will be the last releases of OS X for PPC and that is the time that all the millions of PPC Apple machines could use a nice burst of life with a PPC Linux, such as Ubuntu. People are already making the jump or testing the waters in preperation of the EOL for OS X PPC. Why would a dev want to drop support for an inceasing user base? Heck, it took 10 years to drop support for Amigas in OpenBSD, and they had a much smaller available user base than PPC Apple machines do.