Debian may drop the SPARC architecture

in linux on 2014-04-30 19:17 (#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 .

Re: Oracle (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-05-01 15:19 (#1A4)

and I seriously doubt many people still own old Sun hardware AND still want to use it. I have a Sun Ultra 10 Workstation but its gathering dust for a few years. It's a shame though considering it's almost 15 years old it feels blazingly fast in comparison to the commodity ARM boards you can find everywhere these days.