[Info-vax] OT: Linux on IA64 and-or Alpha

[Neil Rieck]

I realize that this is an OpenVMS forum but there are a lot of people lurking here who work on surplus Itanium and/or Alpha hardware. I just came into some surplus rx2660 servers and was looking for a flavor of Linux which would allow me to play with the latest version of MariaDB-10, and that turned out to be something called Gentoo. While I was looking at the various supported technologies I discovered that Gentoo still supports Alpha. On top of this, apparently Gentoo has been chosen to run in the Tesla automobile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentoo_Linux
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:IA64
http://gentoo.org/
https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/mirrors/
http://gentoo.osuosl.org/releases/
 
I would appreciate learning from others if they can point me to any better version of Linux.

p.s. okay, stop rolling around on the floor ...
 
Neil Rieck
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/docs/openvms_notes_itanium_diary.html