Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 at 12:55am, Rainer Duffner wrote
Am 05.03.2009 um 23:06 schrieb Nigel Kendrick:
Can anyone with a well-connected crystal ball suggest a timeframe for an IA64 release of CentOS 5? Weeks? Months? Never?
If you can afford an IA64-box, you can also afford the RHEL licence ;-)
Not to pick nits, but not everyone buys their IA64 hardware. Some inherit it, some have it donated, etc. It's not necessarily an indication of great wealth.
There are other distros you can run ..
http://www.debian.org/ports/ia64/ http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090214
This release includes numerous updated software packages, such as the K Desktop Environment 3.5.10 (KDE), an updated version of the GNOME desktop environment 2.22.2, [..] Xen Hypervisor 3.2.1 (dom0 as well as domU support), OpenJDK 6b11, and more than 23,000 other ready-to-use software packages (built from over 12,000 source packages).
nate