The openSUSE project and SGI do provide a SUSE Linux Factory tree for IPF / Itanium hardware architecture. The Factory distribution is an always up to date version of the SUSE Linux development distribution, which is used as base for SUSE Linux Enterprise products. SGI is kindly offering this distribution at: ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/opensuse/download/inst-source/ SGI is also offering a drpmsync service, which enables everyone to sync the tree via this command: drpmsync oss.sgi.com:8888/Factory-IA64 <dir> Documentation and installation help is available in the openSUSE wiki: http://en.opensuse.org/IA64_Installation_Issues More informations about the openSUSE project or the Factory distribution can get found here: http://www.opensuse.org http://en.opensuse.org/Factory -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany email: adrian@suse.de