[cfarm-users] Installing emacs on GCC119/AIX

CM Graff cm0graff at gmail.com
Wed Oct 11 16:41:28 CEST 2017


You guys really over-reacted about this.

On 10/11/17, Toebs Douglass via cfarm-users
<cfarm-users at lists.tetaneutral.net> wrote:
> On 11/10/17 15:01, CM Graff via cfarm-users wrote:
>> I believe the problem is that very few of us actually want or need
>> AIX. It's nice of IBM to donate machines, but we need them running
>> linux, netbsd or freebsd. I don't advertise my work here, and nor
>> would I expect it to be pre-installed if I donated a machine. Why
>> should IBM be any different. Furthermore, the product AIX is just not,
>> and never has been important to the free software community, leading
>> to time wastage and novelty test runs.
>
> Could say the same about every non-Intel and non-ARM architecture :-)
>
> For me, doing lock-free, I profoundly value every architecture I can get
> my hands on, because it helps me test code which is problematic to test.
>
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