Debian, in a legendarily retarded move, today opined that they would drop ARM, the world’s most popular processor architecture, and SPARC, the architecture of choice for datacentres, preferring instead to support Itanium.
If someone can explain to me why they would do this, I would very much appreciate it, because it doesn’t seem to make any sense whatsoever. It all smacks of ‘I don’t use it therefore nobody else uses it’.
I wouldn’t worry about it. Like with redhat, there are tons of debian-derived distributions about, some of which are specifically focussed on running on as many platforms as possible. I imagine debian itself wants to focus and streamline. But I find the politics in debian really off-putting (debian itself rocks arse though).