sparc port status

Dustin Kirkland kirkland at ubuntu.com
Thu Mar 27 22:24:30 UTC 2008


On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Lou Ruppert <lruppert at louruppert.com> wrote:
> I haven't been able to find much information about the discontinuation
>  of sparc support in Ubuntu.  Does that mean that there will be no
>  further releases past Gutsy as far as ISO images and packages go, or
>  does it simply mean that Canonical won't "officially" support it, but
>  that new releases will continue to happen.  It's sounding like I'm going
>  to have to migrate to Solaris or Debian if I want to continue using my
>  Sun gear.

Sparc ISO images and packages are still being built.  See here for the
current Hardy images which are undergoing testing:

  http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-server/daily/current/

:-Dustin




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