Gentoo Linux Ending Itanium IA-64 Support

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Gentoo-Linux-Ends-Itanium-IA-64

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.

38 points · 4 comments · view on lemmy.world

4 Comments

mvirts@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y (3 replies)

:( time to throw out that old server

zzx@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (2 replies)

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

mvirts@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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 pts · 2y

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