[Arm-netbook] Well, /this/ looks relevant...

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 7:38 PM, zap <calmstorm at posteo.de> wrote:

>>  there's no reason - at all - why they would put or require any
>> proprietary firmware on it.  there's no VPU, no GPU, nothing special
>> at all.  the nice thing is it looks like it'll be actual first silicon
>> 64-bit so people can at last start doing native compiles.  that's
>> particularly important for debian: cross-compiled or qemu-compiled
> Well, if you are certain then... I guess it is important.
>> packages are *not* accepted (arch they don't mind).
> I am curious why arch is different then debian...

 smaller team, less well-established, rolling releases.  debian's
strict rules, established and tested over 20+ years now, means it can
be trusted for critical infrastructure.

l.