From: tronnerd82@aol.com   
      
   Recently I was looking into the idea of Slackware on RISC-V and came   
   across BonSlack, a third-party port of Slackware to a number of   
   different hardware architectures, including RISC-V, PowerPC, ARMv5,   
   SPARC, MIPS, and even PA-RISC !!!   
      
   https://bonslack.org   
      
   One architecture was missing though: Itanium.   
   This didn't surprise me since Itanium is no longer supported by the   
   mainline kernel, and was dropped from GCC (though that decision   
   was apparently reversed for GCC 15). However, as I soon found out,   
   Itanium support still existed through a fork of the kernel that patched   
   in all the necessary IA64 support. The only major distro that still   
   supports Itanium is T2 SDE, which spearheaded the continued support of   
   Itanium. Looking into it, I thought it would be cool if someone would be   
   able to port Slackware to Itanium, and lo and behold, such a port   
   exists!!!   
      
   https://epic-slack.org   
      
   It would appear from looking at the distribution tree for EPIC Slack,   
   that all graphical applications are removed (presumably due to the   
   immense work needed to get such programs to run).   
      
   For anyone wondering why I made this random Usenet post talking about a   
   port of Slackware to Itanium, I just figured I'd get the word out about   
   it and see what the newsgroup's opinions on the whole thing are. I for   
   one think it's really cool that someone out there is helping to keep   
   this old hardware alive, staying used, and out of a landfill (or several   
   miles below sea level in the case of good ol "Itanic" ;) )   
      
   Let me know your thoughts on it.   
      
   --   
   I didn't choose the Slackware life.   
   Oh wait, that's a big fat lie.   
   But the Slackware life also chose me :)   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)