Editing Itanium (section)

==== Distribution support ====
In 2005, Fedora Linux started adding support for Itanium<ref>{{Cite web|last=Shankland|first=Stephen|title=Fedora for Itanium taking baby steps|url=https://www.cnet.com/culture/fedora-for-itanium-taking-baby-steps/|access-date=2023-07-04|website=CNET|date=22 March 2005 |language=en}}</ref> and Novell added support for SUSE Linux.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Connor|first=Deni|date=2005-01-06|title=Novell releases SuSE Linux for HP Itanium servers|url=https://www.networkworld.com/article/2328219/novell-releases-suse-linux-for-hp-itanium-servers.html|access-date=2021-10-14|website=Network World|language=en|archive-date=2021-10-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029172431/https://www.networkworld.com/article/2328219/novell-releases-suse-linux-for-hp-itanium-servers.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2007, [[CentOS]] added support for Itanium in a new release.<ref>{{Cite web|title=CentOS 5 Linux released|url=https://www.itpro.co.uk/110119/centos-5-linux-released|access-date=2021-10-14|website=IT PRO|date=14 April 2007 |language=en|archive-date=2021-10-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029170900/https://www.itpro.co.uk/110119/centos-5-linux-released|url-status=live}}</ref>

* [[Debian]] (official support was dropped in Debian 8; unofficial support available through Debian Ports until June 2024<ref>{{cite web|title=Debian Ports|url=https://www.ports.debian.org|access-date=2024-10-27}}</ref>)
* EPIC Slack - an unofficial port of [[Slackware]] - specifically supports [[IA-64]] (and hence Itanium) since its release in May 2024.<ref>{{cite web|title=Slackware for IA-64 is here! Get E P I C !|url=http://epic-slack.org/#!index.md#2024-05-15|date=2024-05-15|access-date=2025-01-26}}</ref>
* [[Gentoo Linux]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Project:IA-64|url=https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:IA-64|quote=The Gentoo/IA-64 Project works to keep Gentoo the most up to date and fastest IA-64 distribution available. <!--"The IA-64 Development Project is devoted to keeping Gentoo in good shape on the IA-64 architecture."-->|access-date=2015-07-12|archive-date=2018-09-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180916235508/https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:IA-64|url-status=live}}</ref> (releases before August 2024)<ref>{{cite web|title=Summary of Gentoo Council meeting 2024-07-21|url=https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20240721-summary.txt|quote=The Council members agreed on deprecated ia64 arch|access-date=2024-08-15}}</ref> 
* [[Red Hat Enterprise Linux]] (unsupported since RHEL 6, had support in RHEL 5 until 2017, which supported other platforms until November 30, 2020)
* [[SUSE Linux Enterprise Server|SUSE Linux]] 11 (supported until 2019, for other platforms SUSE 11 was supported until 2022).
* [[T2 SDE]] supports Itanium in its [[IA-64]] port.<ref>{{cite web|title=T2 24.12 "Sky's the Limit!"|url=https://t2sde.org/#news-2024-12-19|quote=Support and stability was improved for SPARC64, Intel Itanium IA-64, Sony PS3, [...]|date=2024-12-19|access-date=2025-01-26}}</ref>