Red Hat to stop support for Alpha, Sparc
Source: smh.com.au
Red Hat has stopped official support for all its Linux releases for the Alpha and Sparc architectures, according to an official posting to the Bugtraq mailing lists.
Outlined its changed errata support policy, Red Hat said that from the release of version 8.0 of its Linux distribution, it would provide errata support for all releases of the base OS for at least 12 months from the date of the initial release.
It said the rationale behind this policy was that all errata underwent vigorous testing and QA procedures on each supported release and platform. By discontinuing errata support for older releases, the company would be able to concentrate on the supported platforms and ensure timely fixes to critical issues.
