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