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SCALE 8x: Ubuntu kernel development processSCALE 8x: Ubuntu kernel development processPosted Mar 4, 2010 7:37 UTC (Thu) by viiru (subscriber, #53129)Parent article: SCALE 8x: Ubuntu kernel development process
"There are more architectures supported by Ubuntu than any other distribution "that I am aware of", he said"
What the hell is the guy babbling on about? As far as I can tell Ubuntu has official support for three architectures and three unofficial ports for it's latest release. That would appear to make six (see https://help.ubuntu.com/9.10/installation-guide/i386/hard...). Debian supported 11 for the latest release, and I'm pretty sure that the people at Canonical have heard about Debian...
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SCALE 8x: Ubuntu kernel development process Posted Mar 4, 2010 14:42 UTC (Thu) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]
Yeah, that does sound suspect. Although I'm not sure I'd trust that page to be properly maintained. Talking about Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic):
"However, Debian GNU/Linux jaunty will not run on 386 or earlier processors."
Hmm...
SCALE 8x: Ubuntu kernel development process Posted Mar 4, 2010 16:54 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
And Ubuntu *will* run on 386s? Interesting, 'cos G++ compiles atomic instructions into C++ programs which are only valid on 486 and above. These aren't in some shared library, they're *compiled into the programs themselves* thus in effect are part of the ABI. Does Ubuntu have its own C++ ABI? I doubt it.
SCALE 8x: Ubuntu kernel development process Posted Mar 4, 2010 17:17 UTC (Thu) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]
Not sure if you're joking or not, but obviously they've done a search and replace from a Debian document at some point for Jaunty, and then copy/pasted the same thing into the Karmic page.
SCALE 8x: Ubuntu kernel development process Posted Mar 5, 2010 0:16 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
That's what I thought: last I knew, Ubuntu required i686, but, hey, maybe
they just increased their hardware support in the old-machine direction vastly. (Very unlikely, I know!)
SCALE 8x: Ubuntu kernel development process Posted Mar 11, 2010 19:19 UTC (Thu) by sciurus (subscriber, #58832) [Link]
My best guess is that Canonical test lots of different ARM boards and he's
counting each of them as an architecture.
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