We are working on this in the Telco market:

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On Apr 29, 2008, at 11:22 AM CDT, Victor Hui wrote:

> Dear Mike,
>
> This is a big problem!  It seems that we are dropping the support on
> Linux running in LDom.  So what is the future of LDom roadmap for the
> Guest OS?
>
> So who is going to address this issue?  Since we have pitched based on
> the corporate slides that we support the ubuntu and Gentoo!
>
> Any comments from others as well?
>
> Rgds
> Victor
>
> Mike Gerdts wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Italo Calvano Junior - Sun
>> Microsystems <Italo.Calvano at sun.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Victor,
>>>
>>>        Good Question.....
>>>
>>>        I have many customers with Red Hat and SUSE.. Its very  
>>> importante.
>>>
>>
>> SuSE closed its SPARC mailing list last November.  The last mention I
>> see of a SuSE SPARC distribution is 7.1
>>
>> http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-sparc/2007-Nov/
>>
>> Red Hat dropped SPARC support in 2000.
>>
>> http://slashdot.org/linux/00/10/02/1216219.shtml
>>
>> Ubuntu began dropping SPARC support in March.
>>
>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2008-March/000400.html
>>
>> As such, I would say that there is not a lot of chance of seeing a
>> major distribution with long term support on LDoms.
>>
>>
>
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