Caroline Ford wrote: >> Both 6.06 LTS and 6.10 do provide a SPARC SMP kernel. >> > Ah - the installation guide says we don't!
The installer does automatic detection and install the appropriate one for you. >> >>> 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. Even if we don't support X on SPARC we still provide cd images for adventurous people (1). Note that X autoconfiguration is far away to be optimal so you will have to play with it yourself, but as community, we welcome patches to make it better. Fabio 1 - http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/ports/daily/current/ to try the latest crack. Note that this image is totally untested.. might work, might not. -- I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
