<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> John Lewis wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:000301c8a663$0e0ff8c0$2a2fea40$@net" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Is there a disk image download of ubuntu that would install to a Sun Ultra2? I'd really like to try it on that machine. </pre> </blockquote> The forums have a section for Sun Sparc Users (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=146">http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=146</a> for the archives, <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=340">http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=340</a> for the current posts) that says: "For Sun UltraSPARC computers, including those based on the multicore UltraSPARC T1 ("Niagara") processors." I believe there's a sparc version for both 6.06 and 7.10, but I don't think the latest 8.04 release has one...ponder...ah, here it is: From <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS3548185347.html">http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS3548185347.html</a> ------------ Sun and Canonical to bring Ubuntu 8.04 to x86 Servers Apr. 03, 2008 Sun was the first major company to give Ubuntu a shot at making the big server show in May 2006. Then, the deal was all about putting <a href="http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS3529702201.html">Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Long Term Support) on the UltraSPARC T1 processor</a> on Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers. The 2008 version of the partnership between Sun and Ubuntu's parent company, Canonical, is all about putting the forthcoming UTS version of Ubuntu, 8.04, on Sun's x86 servers. <a href="http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS5251673744.html">Ubuntu 8.04</a>, however, will no longer be officially supported on SUN's SPARC processor line. Matt Zimmerman, Ubuntu's chief technology officer and chairman of the Ubuntu Technical Board, announced in a <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2008-March/000400.html">Technical Board report March 11</a> that "the officially released architectures for Ubuntu 8.04 will be i386 and amd64. The SPARC port will continue to be provided with build infrastructure, and Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, 7.04 and 7.10 will continue to enable SPARC deployments well into the future, but there will not be an official Ubuntu 8.04 release for SPARC." According to sources close to both Sun and Canonical, the reason for this shift from SPARC to AMD Opteron is that there has been little demand for Ubuntu on SPARC. <a href="http://www.sun.com/servers/index.jsp">Sun's SPARC servers</a> will, of course, still be available with Solaris. ... ------------ -- Peter Smith </body> </html>