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Re:Is it time for open processors? by em3rgent0rdr on Friday January 19, 2018 @04:00AM (#16184963)
ISA fragmentation isn't much a worry for people who only run open source software. Debian is especially good at maintaining ports of tens of thousands of packages for 10 ISAs [1].

[1] https://www.debian.org/ports/

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Re:Is it time for open processors? by em3rgent0rdr on Friday January 19, 2018 @03:37PM (#16189542)
And they still have unofficial ports of 6 other outdated ISAs complete with Debian 9.0 net install ISOs [1].

[1] http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/

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