Minor historical footnote: HP paid Progeny (Ian Murdock's company he founded years after creating Debian) to help port Debian packages to Itanium. They gave us

Minor historical footnote: HP paid Progeny (Ian Murdock's company he founded years after creating Debian) to help port Debian packages to Itanium. They gave us a first-generation computer, which was epically slow of course. That contract helped keep Progeny alive after the venture capital funding dried up; the company's original plan was to allow customers to reboot their Windows desktop computers overnight to run as a distributed Linux supercomputer.