[ale] Canonical discontinues Itanium and SPARC support in Ubuntu

[Jeff Hubbs]

  FWIW, ia64 still fully supported in Gentoo, along with  x86 
<http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml>, sparc 
<http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-sparc.xml>, amd64 
<http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml>, ppc 
<http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-ppc.xml>, ppc64 
<http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-ppc64.xml>, alpha 
<http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-alpha.xml>, hppa 
<http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-hppa.xml>, mips 
<http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-mips.xml>, and arm 
<http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-arm.xml>.

On 8/24/10 10:00 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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