[ale] Canonical discontinues Itanium and SPARC support in Ubuntu

[Jeff Hubbs]

  Itanium is also the last (perhaps "final?") platform for OpenVMS.

On 8/24/10 10:27 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> Itanium isn't dead quite yet - It is what HP uses for HP-UX based
> systems now in place of PA-RISC.  HP quit making PA-RISC systems at the
> end of 2009.
>
> RedHat did announce that RHEL6 won't support Itanium but RHEL5 still
> does and it is far from EOL.  RHEL6 is in beta and RedHat's support
> model means RHEL5 will be supported for quite a while even once RHEL6
> goes GA.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Damon L. Chesser
> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 10:16 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
> Subject: Re: [ale] Canonical discontinues Itanium and SPARC support in
> Ubuntu
>
> On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 10:00 -0400, 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).
> Try the Universal Operating system:  Debian:
> http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst
>> 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-an
> d-SPARC-support-in-Ubuntu-1062860.html
>>
>>          http://preview.tinyurl.com/2ajq4va
>>
>>          keith
>>
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>>          Keith R. Watson                        Georgia Institute of
>>          Technology
>>          Systems Support Specialist IV          College of Computing
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>>          (404) 385-7401                         Atlanta, GA 30332-0280
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