sparc port status

[Scott Kitterman]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:14:17 -0400 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.
>

As I understand it, it means Canonical doesn't support it commercially and 
that Sparc issues won't be considered release blockers.  To the extent it's 
reasonable without owning the hardware, all the developers I know of take 
the non-official archs quite seriously.

Scott K