Dear Scientific Linux CERN ia64 users.

Due to a low demand and very marginal usage of

ia64 architecture in Scientific Linux CERN users community we would like to announce that we will stop the support for it on the 31st of March 2010.

- No further Scientific Linux CERN 4 (SLC4) and

  Scientific Linux CERN 5 (SLC5) updates will be

  provided for ia64 platform after that date.

- No future versions of Scientific Linux CERN for

  ia64 will be released.

- Current versions of SLC for ia64 will be removed

  from our installation service.

  Existing ia64 SLC4/SLC5 CERN users are encouraged to

  migrate to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4/5 systems.

  Please contact linux.support@cern.ch if

  assistance with this migration process is needed.

  We would like to thank all ia64 users, especially

  the CERN Openlab members for the support, feedback

  and hardware supplied through the past years.

  linux.support@cern.ch