Living w/o forks

Yes, currently I'm living without forks. I'm (again) trying to restore OE support for Blackfin platform in a clean way.

One of the major problems is that there is no fork() on Blackfin. And lot's of software expects to have it. E.g. even to build u-boot, via dependancy chain u-boot -> mtd-utils -> e2fsprogs-libs -> util-linux-ng -> udev you get stron dependancy on fork(). I see no way to resolve this, other than build uClibc with UCLIBC_HAS_STUBS, enabling stub for fork().

More on this later

distros

There are a lot of differencies between Ubuntu and Debian. It's nothing wrong with having some. OTOH some of them are very... frustrating. E.g. there is still no IcedTea for Debian, but there are Ubuntu packages with it. From my point of view, it's really strange.