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Get Ready for ARM: Ubuntu Expanding Server Offering
ARM is not just for netbooks, phones, and embedded devices anymore. ARM processors are becoming increasingly competitive for server use. An indicator of ARM's arrival in the server market is that Canonical is now planning an ARM version of Ubuntu Server, which will be available when Ubuntu 11.10 is released this Fall.
As reported on the VAR Guy blog http://www.thevarguy.com/2011/06/16/canonical-ubuntu-server-embracing-arm-architectures/, a blueprint has appeared on Launchpad, making ARM a priority for the 11.10 release with an eye toward having a supportable release available for Ubuntu 12.04. According to the blueprint, the plan is "to achieve a high quality level under functional and load conditions for the identified use cases. The Ubuntu team plans to perform a level of testing equivalent to x86 server offerings, then they will work with upstream projects to resolve as many issues as possible within the Ubuntu ARM Server project's time and resource constraints."
Ubuntu 12.04 will be a Long-Term Support (LTS) release that will be in service for five years – starting just in time (Canonical hopes) to catch the coming wave of ARM-based servers.
Tudor Brown, president of ARM Holdings, has said he believes ARM-based servers will gain a foothold on the market but expects it to take several years before the sales reach significant numbers. ARM is gaining attention in the server market because of its relatively low power requirements and because more powerful chips are seen as overpowered for some tasks – like running individual web servers. Still, ARM has a long way to go before it can stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Intel and AMD in the server room. It lacks 64-bit support or virtualization extensions,
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