On Jul 21, Jesse Goldman wrote > Our group is considering buying some Alpha workstations and we'd like to > put Debian on them. Does anyone have any experience running Debian on the > Alpha platform?
Lots. > Is it similar too and as relatively trouble free as running on an > Intel machine? Not yet. The port is still in the development stage. We have a working base system and will soon have working base disks. It's usable, though---my machine at home is a UDB running Debian/Linux (it's the primary development machine for the port). Having said that, Linux support in general still has some issues. gcc doesn't doesn't have as sophisticated an optimizer, for instance. Depending on what you intend to do, this may or may not be an issue. Mike. -- Michael Alan Dorman Head of Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] Louis Calder Memorial Library (305) 243-5530 University of Miami School of Medicine -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
