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   King Beowulf to All   
   Re: Slackware on Itanium - yes, it exist   
   01 Apr 25 18:49:19   
   
   From: KingBeowulf@none.none   
      
   On Sun, 30 Mar 2025 01:38:37 -0000 (UTC), TronNerd82 wrote:   
      
   > 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   
   >   
   >   
      
   Too bad my Powermac G5 dies years and years ago~   
      
   > 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).   
   >   
   >   
   If I still had any old hardware this would be spiffy.  I wonder if I can   
   still find some old Itanium server hardware.  I can then run my gopher   
   server on it!   
      
   -kb   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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