Linux on Itanium

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Red Hat

Red Hat Linux / Enterprise Linux
Initial release Red Hat Linux 7.1 - Kernel 2.4

Released mid 2001

Last release RHEL 5 - Kernel 2.6.18

Released 15 March 2007

Last major update RHEL 5.11 - Kernel 2.6.18

Released 16 September 2014

End of support Full support - 8 January 2013

Maintenance - 31 March 2017 Extended - 30 November 2020

Red Hat Linux

Red Hat Linux was a widely used commercial Linux distribution, available for x86 machines from 1994 until its discontinuation in 2004.

Support for the Itanium platform was first announced on 16 February 2000 together with the release of some development tools.[1] This was followed up with the release of early source code in May 2000[2] and the release of a public beta in December 2000.[3] That beta release was for the 7.1 release of Red Hat Linux, running on the 2.4 Linux kernel.

The first commercial release was Red Hat Linux 7.1 was announced on 29 May 2001[4] and was available for purchase from sometime between June and August 2001 for the price of $499[5], more than 12x the price of standard Red Hat Linux at $39,95[6], 6x the price of Deluxe Workstation at $79,95[7], 5x the price of the Alpha Deluxe edition for the soon to be discontinued DEC Alpha platform priced at $99,95[8] and almost 3x the price of the Professional Server edition at $179,95.[9] Only the High Availability Server edition and the Enterprise Edition for Oracle were priced higher, costing $1995 and $2500 respectively.[10][11]

Red Hat Linux 7.2 was announced on 7 January 2001[12] and was released sometime around the end of 2001.[13] This version was discontinued sometime between June and September 2002[14][15] in favor of Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation and Advanced Server for Itanium 2-based Systems.[16] This edition was only distributed through OEMs.[17]

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the successor and continuation of Red Hat Linux under a new branding. It continues where Red Hat Linux Advanced Server and Advanced Workstation ended.

RHEL 2.1 for Itanium could be first purchased outside of OEM channels from mid 2003, starting at $792 for the Workstation (WS) variant and at $1992 for the Advanced Server (AS) variant.[18] In mid 2004 the Enterprise Server (ES) edition was also made available for Itanium during the lifetime of RHEL 3. RHEL 4 released in February 2005 was the last release to come with a WS (Workstation) edition for Itanium.[19] The last release of RHEL to support Itanium was 5, released in March 2007 and discontinued in March 2017, with Extended Lifecycle Support available until November 2020.[20]

Today RHEL 4 AS and ES, as well as RHEL 5 Server can still be downloaded from Red Hat with a developer or business subscription account.

Downloads

Red Hat

RHEL AS/ES 4.8 ia64 (free developer account required)

RHEL 5.11 ia64 (free developer account required)

References

  1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20010605134758/http://www.redhat.com/about/presscenter/2000/press_itanium-alpha.html
  2. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20010605134758/http://www.redhat.com/about/presscenter/2000/press_itanium-alpha.html
  3. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20010620054747/http://www.redhat.com/about/presscenter/2000/press_itanium2.html
  4. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20020606134425/http://www.redhat.com/about/presscenter/2001/press_itanium.html
  5. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20010802120544/http://www.redhat.com/products/software/linux/7-1_itanium.html
  6. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20010613205301/http://www.redhat.com/products/software/linux/7-1_standard.html
  7. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20010613201242/http://www.redhat.com/products/software/linux/7-1_deluxe.html
  8. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20011031163454/http://www.redhat.com/software/linux/rhl7a_deluxe.html
  9. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20010613204025/http://www.redhat.com/products/software/linux/7-1_professional.html
  10. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20010620093351/http://www.redhat.com/products/software/linux/haserver/
  11. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20010620105948/http://www.redhat.com/products/software/linux/eeoracle/
  12. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20030602124754/http://www.redhat.com/about/presscenter/2002/press_itanium.html
  13. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20020111065727/http://www.redhat.com/software/linux/7-2_itanium.html
  14. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20021012105520/http://www.redhat.com/about/presscenter/2002/press_hp.html
  15. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20021001234753/http://www.redhat.com/software/itanium/
  16. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20030424053718/http://www.redhat.com/about/presscenter/2002/press_hp3.html
  17. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20030401190804/http://www.redhat.com/software/itanium/
  18. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20030802121118/http://www.redhat.com/software/itanium/
  19. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20060630051556/http://www.redhat.com/rhel/compare/
  20. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux#Product_life_cycle

Further reading

Intel White Paper - The Powerful Combination of Linux and the Intel Itanium Processor Family (2002)

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