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Jerimy Katz is a Fedora developer. In a post to the fedora-devel-list he said:

Although I hate to do it, it looks like we're going to have to slip Fedora Core 5 test3 by a week. There is an ABI change in the gcc/glibc stack that requires a rebuild of the entire distribution. Given that, there is no way that we'll be able to make a freeze date of Monday. So, test3 will now freeze on Monday, 13 February with a release date of Monday, 20 February.

We'll adjust the final schedule sometime next week based on the progress of the rebuilding efforts.

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I read an entry today at the Debian review / information site that tells that Debian Etch, the next major version of the Linux distribution will have number of supported platforms reduced to eight, down from twelve in the current version.

The dropped platforms are those based on the ARM, Motorola 68k, IBM S/390 and Sun SPARC architectures.

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