Hello, Currently CERN is doing all of the work for the Itanium (ia64) support in Scientific Linux. This is because they have Itanium machines. CERN's hardware roadmap has them phasing out Itanium's, and eventually getting rid of all of them. When this happens CERN will no longer to support the ia64 port of Scientific Linux. This is not going to happen overnight, or in a few months, but it will happen. We have asked the High Energy Physic's community at the last two HEPIX conferences, if anyone will be affected, and both time's, nobody said that they would. I am now asking the question to the general Scientific Linux development community. Is there a lab, univerisity, or organization that not only needs Scientific Linux on ia64, but is also willing to support it? The main developers have all agreed that it's ok by us if ia64 goes away gracefully. We don't want ia64 hanging around if nobody is using it. But on the other hand, if someone needs it, and is willing to put forth the effort to support it, we will be willing to keep it in the distribution. Thanks Troy Dawson -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/CSS CSI Group __________________________________________________