Recent content by Zan Lynx

Was poking around the forums, noticed this. Doesn't look like anyone actually answered your question but maybe it doesn't matter since its been a while. But here it goes. void getstuff(char *out, size_t len) { for(size_t i = 0; i < len; ++i) { out[i] = 'x'; } } int main() {...

First, I don't know what you mean by "problematic." From my experience with one other IA64, they aren't. I have a Compaq DL/590 and it has never given me trouble, once I got it set up (it's heavy!) and got past the bugs of the Debian IA64 installer. Those bugs have since been fixed...

I agree about availability. It seems nearly impossible and far too expensive to just go to HP.com and order up an Itanium workstation. I believe that if more Linux users tried them, they would like them. One of the benefits that I have seen is very smooth multitasking. Admittedly, a Xeon...

I finally got off my butt and installed Fedora 9 on mine. I would have done 10 or 11-alpha but no one seems to be building Fedora for IA64 any more. Sad. Perhaps I'll fix that. I was going to install Gentoo but their IA64 installer CD wouldn't boot the kernel after loading initrd.gz I...