<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Michael B. Trausch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 10:00 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
</div><div class="im">> kind of sad, yet not really. Both chips are dead except for really<br>
> esoteric things (SPARC still used in a game box?). RedHat dropped it<br>
> with Fedora at F13. RHEL 6 will not support either as well (I think).<br>
><br>
> The really sad part is the number of system still out there that are<br>
> now destined for the trash heap because of no more software support.<br>
> SGI sold a small crapton of Itanium gear designed for Linux. The code<br>
> is still in the kernel so it will be around for a while longer.<br>
<br>
</div>Well, at least it's possible to maintain stuff by oneself, or "port"<br>
things like Debian and Ubuntu to such platforms unofficially and try to<br>
keep them up-to-date. If I had any need to use either or these two<br>
architectures, I'd probably set up a local repository and try to keep it<br>
up. </blockquote><div><br>The openSUSE build service (OBS) is seeing more architectures pop up.<br><br>It was just Intel and PPC I think. But there are currently small teams working on Arm, Mips, PArisc, and Sparc versions I believe. For now only the Intel version is available / supported.<br>
<br>(ie. Since the whole distro build process is publicly visible, interested teams can do their own port relatively easily, but I don't think any of those ports are done yet.)<br><br>OBS is only being used to package the openSUSE and MeeGo distros I believe for now, so the benefit of the work is limited.<br>
<br>Greg<br><br><br></div></div><br>