Canonical and ARM have jointly announced today that they are porting Ubuntu to the ARMv7 processor architecture in time for the release of
Ubuntu 9.04 (the
Jaunty Jackalope). Ubuntu is coming to the ARM platform for emerging
netbooks and hybrid computers using this architecture.
Supported by the ARMv7 architecture are ARM Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 processor-based systems. The press release regarding this official Canonical port can be read
here. After support for
Ubuntu on Sun's SPARC architecture was dropped earlier this year (just two years after
Canonical announced SPARC support), the primary architectures currently supported by Ubuntu are x86 and x86_64.