[ale] Canonical discontinues Itanium and SPARC support in Ubuntu

[Lightner, Jeff]

Itanium isn't dead quite yet - It is what HP uses for HP-UX based
systems now in place of PA-RISC.  HP quit making PA-RISC systems at the
end of 2009.

RedHat did announce that RHEL6 won't support Itanium but RHEL5 still
does and it is far from EOL.  RHEL6 is in beta and RedHat's support
model means RHEL5 will be supported for quite a while even once RHEL6
goes GA.   

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Damon L. Chesser
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 10:16 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] Canonical discontinues Itanium and SPARC support in
Ubuntu

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-an
d-SPARC-support-in-Ubuntu-1062860.html
>         
>         http://preview.tinyurl.com/2ajq4va
>         
>         keith
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