Gentoo Linux Ending Itanium IA-64 Support (www.phoronix.com)

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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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[-] mvirts@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

:( time to throw out that old server

[-] zzx@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Do you actually have an old itanium server that you're using for home labbing? Lmao

[-] mvirts@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Lol I used to use it for that. About a year ago I tried to boot it and only 1 CPU came up and the memory was failing and before the bios crashed it was trying to boot but didn't see the disks 😅 I looked at the board and one of the cpu socket brackets was cracked so I put it back in the shed

[-] zzx@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

That's wild bro, itanium was such a weird architecture

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