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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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How many IA-64 machines are still running at all? I never knew they even made that many in the first place!
They were made up to 2020, and vendor support lasts until next year. HP bought into Itanium hard and continued to sell those chips as long as they possibly could.
Oh wow, I guess both of the HP-UX users will be gutted to read this!
@user68k they still support i686 which is crazy - i just installed it on a dualcore netbook from 2010 last week
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).
Good riddance.
