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another point of view:

there may be many better computers than the raspberry pi, they do work and h=
ave been a good choice for me (running plan9) for about 5 years now, and sti=
ll are.

-Steve



> On 1 Apr 2023, at 9:29 pm, Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net> wrote:
>=20
> =EF=BB=BFOn Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 02:50:44PM -0400, sl@stanleylieber.com wr=
ote:
>>> The fact now the system is installing mainly on amd64 (in the case of
>>> virtualization) and on arm (in the case of RPi). Therefore, IMHO,
>>> there need to set accent on these architectures, and the rest ones are
>>> mention as options.
>>=20
>> well, maybe. if we arrive at some agreement on changing the "default"
>> architecture, fine; but to my knowledge nobody has established that
>> yet. 386 was always the starting point. i appreciate that owners of
>> amd64 systems often have no interest in looking back, but we do still
>> have a significant number of 386 users, and the amd64 port in fact
>> still builds code out of the 386 kernel. a significant number of drivers
>> are still disabled (by default)in the amd64 kernel.
>>=20
>> i am of course happy to revisit this if devs have some preference
>> to the contrary.
>=20
> In addition the raspberry pi is a trash computer and I'm not comfortable
> recommending them even implicitly by emphasising them in documentation.
> People should try really hard not to use them even when they ARE
> available, which is not any more.
>=20
> khm