Matt Zimmerman wrote: >> Our documentation is confused (and bug reported..) >> > > I'm not sure where you filed this or which documentation you mean, but in > any case the documentation team would be a better place to discuss it: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > It was here - https://launchpad.net/bugs/81037 - the installation guide on the edgy SPARC server CD. I agree this isn't the appropriate list. > >> While I'm having a SPARC whinge - we need to ship an smp kernel - don't >> expect people to pay $$ for a server box and either only run one cpu or >> compile the kernel. Compiling a kernel is *very* not ubuntu in my eyes. >> > > Both 6.06 LTS and 6.10 do provide a SPARC SMP kernel. > Ah - the installation guide says we don't! > >> We need to ship a SPARC cd with X on. Many of the supported machines are >> workstations not servers. Leaving the user with the command line is A >> Bad Thing too. >> > > There are good reasons why SPARC is a "server-only" port for Ubuntu. The > desktop stack is not well supported on this platform, and furthermore very > little is available in the way of testing. There's much more to providing > an ISO than creating the image; each of these need to be properly tested and > certified before being released, and our resources are better spent > elsewhere than on GNOME and KDE for SPARC. > > Fair point - SPARC on the desktop will have even less users than PowerPC... Rather nice machines though imo - and old ones are pretty cheap now.
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