On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 18:33 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: [snip] > Seriously, I've seen more people file s390 bugs > than ia64 bugs for the Fedora kernel packages. Sheesh, seriously?! Now that's really sad. That probably explains at least *some* of the reason for HP stepping out of the partnership with Intel. We just got two loaner rx1600's in a week ago and I managed to get Whitebox Enterprise Linux (ported to ia64 and referenced on the Gelato website -- http://www.gelato.org/). While it's a funky platform (stupidly putting the so-called Extended Firmware Interface or EFI on *disk* making diskless systems an effort, if not impossible -- though it could be just my lack of experience with the platform), they're not that bad. It's definitely zippy for a dual 1GHz box, if not exorbitantly expensive. What was the reason for ditching Alpha again? Oh, well. I'm happy with my FC3 on my new dual Opteron 250 and happy that it's now a tier 1 platform. I'd be happy to be a beta tester for FC on ia64 if Jesse can get SGI to donate an Altix to me. ;-) -- -Paul Iadonisi Senior System Administrator Red Hat Certified Engineer / Local Linux Lobbyist Ever see a penguin fly? -- Try Linux. GPL all the way: Sell services, don't lease secrets
