Re: : Fwd: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) released
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> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 03:46:51PM -0400, staticsafe wrote: >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) released >> Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is the first long-term support release with support >> for the new "arm64" architecture for 64-bit ARM systems, as well as the >> "ppc64el" architecture for little-endian 64-bit POWER systems. This >> release also includes several subtle but welcome improvements to Unity, >> AppArmor, and a host of other great software. > > Any idea which arm64 systems it currently runs on? Their likely referring to the ARMv8 Foundation Model which is a virtualized mv8 (aka arm64, AArch64 *) CPU. This to help boot strap software validation ahead of silicon availability. http://www.arm.com/products/processors/instruction-set-architectures/armv8-architecture.php Qualcomm has their ARMv8 silicon announced. But we're still largely looking at another year for consumer devices. http://www.qualcomm.com/snapdragon/processors/810 (*): The distro's are divergent on Architecture naming again *sigh* -- Scott Sullivan -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://gtalug.org/ TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists