Ubuntu IA64 Port Project

[Thibaut VARENE]

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Hi,

First of all, some context:
I'm a CS student graduating at the end of the year, and, as part of my
scholarship, I'm currently running a project dealing with IA64 Linux.
FWIW, I'm also known by some of you as a DD and a PA-RISC/Linux
hacker ;)

Now, the facts:
Roughly put, the aim of that project is to build an enterprise-grade 
Linux
distribution for IA64 (another part of my project is to study existing 
distros
and try to find out what's missing in order to fully achieve 
enterprise-level
quality ;)

After some investigations and discussions with my project's leader, it 
clearly
appeared that Ubuntu Linux was a very interesting candidate.

I'm hereby offering to start an IA64 port of Ubuntu Linux (I have time 
& machines
available), and I'd like to know how such a project would be welcomed 
in the
Ubuntu community.

LaMont Jones told me that the biggest part of the work should be 
porting the
installer, the rest being much easier. Any thought, comment?

HTH


Thibaut VARENE
The PA/Linux ESIEE Team
http://www.pateam.org/
http://www.parisc-linux.org/~varenet/
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