Can anyone with a well-connected crystal ball suggest a timeframe for an IA64 release of CentOS 5? Weeks? Months? Never?
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Nigel Kendrick
on 3-5-2009 2:06 PM Nigel Kendrick spake the following:
Can anyone with a well-connected crystal ball suggest a timeframe for an IA64 release of CentOS 5? Weeks? Months? Never?
There has not been a lot of support for other arches besides x86-64 and i386 up to now. Not sure if it is the hardware or the manpower, but maybe both with a lack of much interest thrown in for good measure.
On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 14:34 -0800, Scott Silva wrote:
on 3-5-2009 2:06 PM Nigel Kendrick spake the following:
Can anyone with a well-connected crystal ball suggest a timeframe for an IA64 release of CentOS 5? Weeks? Months? Never?
There has not been a lot of support for other arches besides x86-64 and i386 up to now. Not sure if it is the hardware or the manpower, but maybe both with a lack of much interest thrown in for good measure.
No crystal ball here, but the last mention of progress on IA64 on the centos-devel list was in Feb. 2008. Last mention on centos-qa was Nov. 2007. If there is substantial demand for IA64 (PPC, Sparc, etc.) it is not very evident.
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?
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If you can afford an IA64-box, you can also afford the RHEL licence ;-)
IA64 will be in the vintage-computing department in a few years anyway....
Rainer
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.
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
Am 06.03.2009 um 00:58 schrieb Joshua Baker-LePain:
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.
Well, to me an inherited IA64 is in the same department as, say, an inherited Onyx or StarFire 10k server.
;-)
I'm not sure how stable the non-enterprise distros run on IA64 - due to limited availability outside the enterprise (HP discontinued the workstations years ago, AFAIK), testing is limited, too and stability always a concern. At least to me.
Would the thread-opener disclose if his IA64-box is a hobby or part of a commercial operation?
Rainer
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