Fedora 10 for Itanium (IA64) Architecture?

Oliver Falk oliver at linux-kernel.at
Mon Feb 16 11:39:27 UTC 2009


Tosh wrote:
> Sutton, Harry (MSE) wrote:
>> One of our engineers posted a question on an internal mailing list
>> asking why he was unable to find this release; I can't find it on any of
>> the mirrors, is this an oversight or an intentional drop of this
>> architecture?
>>
>>      /Harry Sutton, RHCA, RHCSS
>>       HP Open Source and Linux Profession Global Lead
>>
> Redhat still supports ia64, but as it is not that prominent an 
> architecture for the free community users, there tends to be less focus 
> on this architecture - eg : Fedora and CentOS
> 
> A humble suggestion : maybe if HP would be as kind as to help the community
> (1) HP could contribute it's effort of porting to ia64 arch to the open 
> source community directly
> (2) donating some hardware, as they are the co-inventor/producer of this 
> architecture
> It will in my opinion speed up development

Same is true for Alpha :-P

-of




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