[TriLUG] best distro for Alpha?

Neil L. Roeth neil at occamsrazor.net
Fri Oct 11 18:54:26 EDT 2002


I occasionally fire up my XP1000 running Debian, and it works well.  I pretty
much run Debian on everything, so I can't help you in comparing it to other
distros, but it was running RH when I got it.

On Oct 11, Thunder Bear (thunderbear at yonderway.com) wrote:
 > I got my Alphas home after the meeting and fired one of them up.  Noisy 
 > sucker, but works fine so far.  After I got the blasted AlphaBIOS off 
 > of it and the SRM firmware on, I was able to get OpenBSD installed.
 > 
 > I imagine Debian is a popular choice for this platform, but I'm 
 > wondering if there are any other folks running older Alphas that have a 
 > favorite distro for this platform.
 > 
 > Thunder Bear
 > Experimental local area weblog at http://yonderway.com/dot
 > "The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly."
 > -Abraham Lincoln
 > 
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Neil L. Roeth



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