Technical Board decisions

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:42:38AM -0600, Chris wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > The Ubuntu Technical Board has made two technical decisions of which we
> > would like to inform the Ubuntu community.  Both of these decisions concern
> > the upcoming 7.04 release of Ubuntu, scheduled for mid-April.
> 
> > The PowerPC Architecture
> > ------------------------
> > 
> > Summary:
> > 
> >   Beginning with Ubuntu 7.04, the PowerPC edition of Ubuntu will be
> >   reclassified as unofficial.  The PowerPC software itself and supporting
> >   infrastructure will continue to be available, and supported by a community
> >   team.
> 
> It would be nice to see support for Sparc devices. Is this something in
> the works? Case in point, I have several Sparc10 I would love to toss
> Ubuntu on.

SPARC has been an official Ubuntu platform for the past two releases,
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS and Ubuntu 6.10.  Prior to that, it was an unofficial
platform.

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 - mdz