Mark at JavaOne

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 12:23:56PM -0700, Scott wrote:
> I am concerned that Ubuntu is going to become another Debian as far as
> the number of supported architectures is concerned.  Right now it's
> standing at 7 and if Mark's hinting about Dapper for Niagara is
> concerned, that will push the number to 8.  Debian has 12 at the moment
> and Ubuntu is getting perilously close to it.

Of Ubuntu's 6 ports (i386, amd64, powerpc, sparc, hppa, ia64), 4 are treated
as release-quality (i386, amd64, powerpc and sparc).  The sparc port is not
new, and already existed for a long time before Dapper.

Debian, by contrast, currently stands at double that number (8) for the
upcoming release:

http://release.debian.org/etch_arch_qualify.html

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 - mdz