Gentoo Linux drops IA-64 (Itanium) support
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Gentoo ☛ Gentoo Linux drops IA-64 (Itanium) support – Gentoo Linux
Following the removal of IA-64 (Itanium) support in the Linux kernel and glibc, and subsequent discussions on our mailing list, as well as a vote by the Gentoo Council, Gentoo will discontinue all ia64 profiles and keywords. The primary reason for this decision is the inability of the Gentoo IA-64 team to support this architecture without kernel support, glibc support, and a functional development box (or even a well-established emulator). In addition, there have been only very few users interested in this type of hardware.
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Gentoo ☛ Gentoo drops IA-64 support – Gentoo Linux
In one month, all ia64 profiles will be removed, all ia64 keywords will be dropped from all packages, and all IA-64 related Gentoo bugs will be closed.
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Linuxiac ☛ Gentoo Linux to Phase Out Itanium Support
Developed by Intel in collaboration with HP and launched in 2001, Itanium was designed to address the high-performance computing market, utilizing a unique instruction set architecture known as EPIC (Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing).
Unlike the more common x86 architecture, which relies on Complex Instruction Set Computing (CISC), EPIC enables the processor to execute multiple instructions in parallel, aiming to boost processing speed and efficiency.
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Gentoo GNU/Linux drops IA-64 (Itanium) support
The Gentoo Linux project has announced that it is dropping support for Itanium: [...]
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