Debian may drop the SPARC architecture

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in linux on (#3JJ)
Reported by LWN :
As of tonight, there is no more SPARC in testing. The main reasons were
lack of porter commitments, problems with the toolchain 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 .

Oracle (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-04-30 22:04 (#19R)

So "¦ Oracle has kind of been like the kiss of death for this platform. I like SPARC because it's interesting and because it's not x86, which despite its ubiquity I find boring and poorly organized and kludgy at best.

But Oracle isn't an OS developer, SPARC has been left to rot in the gallows, and the users are going elsewhere. Too bad, SPARC, say hi to all those other interesting-but-dead architectures out there. [Posted from my Pentium IV, which has burned a hole through my desk and is now melting its way through the concrete.]
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