Is there a big-endian (BE) version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux available for Itanium processors?
Unfortunately, the short answer is no.
The reasoning behind it is so that backwards compatibility is retained with x86 architectures, which are little-endian (LE).
For further information on big & little endian please see the links below:
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