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

[Eberhard Heuser]

Am 01.09.2016 um 16:56 schrieb Neil Rieck via Info-vax:
> 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/
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> 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
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Centos (a free Redhat clone) has a IA64-version, too.

I've installed this version successfully on a rx2660. There is a bug in 
the installation script
that produces a unbootable OS, but it is very easy to solve this problem 
by copying some
files into the efi partition.

Eberhard