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Title    Debian May Drop the SPARC Architecture
Date    Sunday November 20 2016, @04:58AM
Author    caffeine
Topic   
from the so-long-and-thanks-for-the-risc dept.
https://dev.soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/11/20/0845226

omoc writes:

Reported by LWN:

As of tonight, there is no more SPARC in testing. The main reasons were lack of porter commitments, problems with the tool chain and continued stability issues with our machines.

The fate of SPARC in unstable has not been decided yet. It might get removed unless people commit to working on it. Discussion about this should take place on #745938 [debian.org].

I can still remember using my first SPARCstation station. They were only supplied to our lecturers and we would use them any chance we could. Anyone else going to miss this venerable architecture?

Original Submission

Links
  1. "omoc" - https://dev.soylentnews.org/~omoc/
  2. "LWN" - http://lwn.net/Articles/596663/
  3. "#745938" - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=745938
  4. "Original Submission" - https://dev.soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=1641
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