Re: Linus Distro for an HP Itanium EFI based server

[Hurf Sheldon <]

Debian has an Itanium specific distro and a loyal
group of developers:

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Mitch Wiedemann wrote:

> Boot an Ubuntu live CD and see if all your bits and pieces are
> recognized. If so, use Ubuntu. It's easy to install and use, and runs
> VirtualBox very well, so I imagine VMware will work without any trouble
> at all.
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> Jason T. Slack wrote:
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> > Hello All,
> >
> > I have acquired an HP Integrity rx2600 with 16GB of RAM (because
> > someone needed xmas money and they sold it to me for $600) Has dual
> > Itanium processors and about 400GB of HD space.
> >
> > I would like to know what Linux distributions support this machine the
> > best. HP says RedHat Enterprise Edition, SUSE Enterprise Server,
> > HP/UX, OpenVMS and Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition.These are
> > all really expensive and I would like to find something different.
> >
> > This machine will actually be my development machine as will need to
> > run VMWare or some other virtualization solution so I can keep things
> > separate. I have a lot of contracts right now for software development
> > work and I prefer that each have a separate VM instance to keep things
> > separate and organized.
> >
> > Does anyone have thoughts?
> >
> > -Jason
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> > Whenever I'm wrong, the world just makes a little bit less sense.
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