[ale] Canonical discontinues Itanium and SPARC support in Ubuntu

[jim.kinney at gmail.com (Jim Kinney)]

kind of sad, yet not really. Both chips are dead except for really esoteric
things (SPARC still used in a game box?). RedHat dropped it with Fedora at
F13. RHEL 6 will not support either as well (I think).

The really sad part is the number of system still out there that are now
destined for the trash heap because of no more software support. SGI sold a
small crapton of Itanium gear designed for Linux. The code is still in the
kernel so it will be around for a while longer.

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Watson, Keith <krwatson at cc.gatech.edu>wrote:

> Canonical discontinues Itanium and SPARC support in Ubuntu
>
> http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Canonical-discontinues-Itanium-and-SPARC-support-in-Ubuntu-1062860.html
>
> http://preview.tinyurl.com/2ajq4va
>
> keith
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