> I was looking at the Slackware website and saw that x86, Alpha, and SPARC
> were the only CPU platforms under which it ran. I was wondering whether
> newer 64-bit systems, such as the AMD64 and Itanium would be compatible,
> since its supposably still x86. Can Slackware run on x86/64-bit systems?
It should have no problems running on the AMD64 processors, but Itanium uses its
own 64-bit instruction set and while I believe it offers some support for x86,
it does so with software emulation that is not too good. RH has a version
compiled and optimized for Itanium as should Gentoo or Debian.
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