Ubuntu Drops SPARC, IA64

“Maverick Meerkat is set to become the last version of Ubuntu that’ll run on Oracle’s Sparc, ending a four-year relationship. Also getting canned is Ubuntu running on Hewlett-Packard’s Itanic 64-bit challenger. Meerkat is currently in feature-freeze ahead of October’s official launch, and apparently nobody’s stepped up to maintain the Linux ports to either Sparc or Itanium. The Ubuntu Sparc port has fallen out of use and updates have slipped, meaning it’s fallen below the level of quality needed for an Ubuntu port. Ubuntu on HP’s IA64 is in slightly better shape, but – still – nobody’s actively maintaining it.”

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