[ale] Canonical discontinues Itanium and SPARC support in Ubuntu

[Damon L. Chesser]

On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 10:00 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
> kind of sad, yet not really. Both chips are dead except for really
> esoteric things (SPARC still used in a game box?). RedHat dropped it
> with Fedora at F13. RHEL 6 will not support either as well (I think).

Try the Universal Operating system:  Debian:
http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst 
> 
> The really sad part is the number of system still out there that are
> now destined for the trash heap because of no more software support.
> SGI sold a small crapton of Itanium gear designed for Linux. The code
> is still in the kernel so it will be around for a while longer.
> 
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Watson, Keith
> <krwatson at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
>         Canonical discontinues Itanium and SPARC support in Ubuntu
>         http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Canonical-discontinues-Itanium-and-SPARC-support-in-Ubuntu-1062860.html
>         
>         http://preview.tinyurl.com/2ajq4va
>         
>         keith
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