On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 20:41 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:14:17 -0400 Lou Ruppert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >I haven't been able to find much information about the discontinuation > >of sparc support in Ubuntu. Does that mean that there will be no > >further releases past Gutsy as far as ISO images and packages go, or > >does it simply mean that Canonical won't "officially" support it, but > >that new releases will continue to happen. It's sounding like I'm going > >to have to migrate to Solaris or Debian if I want to continue using my > >Sun gear. > > > > As I understand it, it means Canonical doesn't support it commercially and > that Sparc issues won't be considered release blockers. To the extent it's > reasonable without owning the hardware, all the developers I know of take > the non-official archs quite seriously.
It is kinda funny since the Ubuntu Weekly did write about this article: http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9897872-16.html You would expect Sun and Canonical to become better friends and try to support eachothers hard-/software. Scott, are you saying that the lack of hardware is one of the main issues for discontinuing support for Sparc? I think that should be something Sun can fix. Mark a.k.a. Jeeves_ PS: I've just setup a platform for the Ubuntu-release in .nl, based on two T1000's (Sun Sparc) running Hardy and a X4500 (Sun x64) running Gutsy. -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
