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Debian Drops SPARC Platform Support

Posted by Soulskill on from the not-with-a-bang dept.

jones_supa writes: SPARC isn't exactly a highly-used architecture anymore, so the Debian operating system is dropping support for the platform, according to Joerg Jaspert last week in the "debian-sparc" mailing list. He noted that this does not block a later comeback as "sparc64." Following that announcement, a new post today tells us that SPARC support was just removed from the unstable, experimental and jessie-updates channels.

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  1. Mod reversal by jenningsthecat · · Score: 2, Informative

    Posting to cancel a 'Troll' mod that I posted to the wrong comment by mistake. And may the AC who posted shit about gay black people, die very slowly in a fire

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    1. Re:Mod reversal by OverlordQ · · Score: 3, Informative

      It's GNAA, arguably been trolling Slashdot as long as SPARC has been around.

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  2. Re:Wow, end of an era. by h4ck7h3p14n37 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well, I suppose it can finally no longer be said that the Sparcstation 10 I keep here just for old times' sake can still run "current Linux distributions."

    NetBSD and OpenBSD both run on the SparcStation 10 and they're actual UNIX operating system. http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/s... http://www.openbsd.org/sparc.h...

  3. Re:So funny, but yeah, totally true. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    > Not even enough to load a single JPG snapshot from a camera phone these days.

    Surprisingly, this is not true!

    JPEG was designed back in the 80s and 90s by a bunch of smart guys who wanted something that would work for print and screen. So, they predicted that one would reasonably want to work with images that could not be reasonably be displayed in full resolution on the hardware of the day, but might be handled line by line by a printer.

    So, a JPEG decoder can downscale a JPEG on the fly. When it does this, it only loads the data required to display the downscaled image. It *is* a time/space tradeoff, but it *does* let you see and edit an image that you might otherwise be unable to work with.