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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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

submitted 3 months ago by user68k@wired.bluemarch.art to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] smeg@feddit.uk 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

Good riddance.

[–] picofarad@noauthority.social 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] nyan@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

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).