Ubuntu's SPARC & IA64 Ports Have Been Killed
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The deadline for anyone to take over the work of maintaining these Ubuntu ports was the Maverick feature freeze, which passed last week, and the Ubuntu Technical Board has approved decommissioning this support entirely and dropping SPARC/IA64 from the Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" kernel.
Confirmation of this decision to end the Intel IA64 and Sun SPARC architecture support beginning with Ubuntu 10.10 and going forward can be found on the technical-board and ubuntu-devel mailing lists.
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