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thehatfox@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago

Will Linux on Itanium be saved? Absolutely not

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Will Linux on Itanium be saved? Absolutely not

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thehatfox@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago
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It's doomed to sink... but the how and why is interesting
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  • pan_troglodytes@programming.dev
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    hoohoo! Linus pulled a scream test and then forced the naysayers to maintain the crap they want. rofl

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    I’m far sadder to see the various MIPS machines starting to lose support than I am for Itanic.

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      I thought MIPS was making a come back

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    And good riddance. They were technological marvels, but the continuously slipping release dates made them obsolete the day they were released.

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    Is anyone actually running modern Linux on Itanium? I have never in my life even heard of anyone using those chips. I find it hard to imagine anyone still using them that isn’t running something legacy.

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    It seems like NetBSD is working to support Itanium. https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/ia64/

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