Will Knight of ZDNet UK reports that “the four leading distributors of Linux officially announced their commitment to developing the open source operating system for the Intel's forthcoming IA-64 . . . architecture.” These include Caldera, Red Hat, SuSE, and TurboLinux. The four companies have collaborated via an alliance called the “Trillian project” aimed at ensuring that the very first machines based… on Intel's Itanium processors will be capable of running Linux.

“Itanium processors, formerly code-named Merced, are expected to start shipping in the second half of 2000. The Trillian project team plans to release its work to the open source community in the first half of next year. “

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