Gentoo Linux Ending Itanium IA-64 Support (www.phoronix.com)
from user68k@wired.bluemarch.art to linux@lemmy.ml on 15 Aug 2024 02:12
https://wired.bluemarch.art/post/324867

Gentoo Linux was one of the last few Linux distributions continuing to maintain Itanium (IA-64) architecture builds but that is now being phased out for those discontinued Intel processors.

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smeg@feddit.uk on 15 Aug 2024 08:18 next collapse

How many IA-64 machines are still running at all? I never knew they even made that many in the first place!

[deleted] on 15 Aug 2024 08:23 collapse

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smeg@feddit.uk on 15 Aug 2024 09:30 collapse

Oh wow, I guess both of the HP-UX users will be gutted to read this!

pastermil@sh.itjust.works on 15 Aug 2024 10:45 next collapse

Good riddance.

picofarad@noauthority.social on 15 Aug 2024 02:31 collapse

@user68k they still support i686 which is crazy - i just installed it on a dualcore netbook from 2010 last week

nyan@sh.itjust.works on 15 Aug 2024 13:52 collapse

Actually, if you check deep down in the list of installables, you’ll find that Gentoo still supports the even less capable i486 variant. A laptop from 2010 is positively a spring chicken compared to some of the things it can be made to run on. Itanium is only being desupported because it’s being dropped upstream by the kernel and other chunks of the toolchain (and the only actual hardware they had to test on died a while ago).