[Novalug] Thoughts.

Eric Dantan Rzewnicki eric at zhevny.com
Thu Nov 19 01:39:55 EST 2009


On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 06:29:46PM -0500, American Dave wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 05:49:29PM -0500, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
> 
> > Ubuntu, as far as I know only support x86 and amd64.
> 
> I've run Ubuntu on PPC, but there was a decision to no longer 'officially'
> support non x86-based arches some time ago.  That said, here's a link of
> Ubuntu 9.10 images for a surpising range of hardware:
> 
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/9.10/release/

Interesting. I now know more than I did. Thanks.

Here is the list of Debian ports:
http://www.debian.org/ports/

and Lenny release notes, which includes the list of officially supported
architectures: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/

Just information, no judgement intended.

-Eric Rz.



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