Re: [Maxlinux-devel] We're getting an Alpha port!

[Michael L. <inc...@my...>]

Kelledin,

Sounds good to me.  Also, I moved your story on the web site to be a
"Feature Article", that places it right at the top of the page.  I wanted
to bring up releasing IOS early again, but not to the general public, we
need Testers, so why not tell our local LUGs about where they can
download the distro, we have Bugzilla set up; what better way to put it
to use?!

Michael


On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 21:24:04 -0500, "Kelledin"
<kel...@sk...> said:
> I just got a reasonably feisty Alpha box a couple of days ago 
> (21164@600MHz) minus a few parts.  I'm now in the process of 
> turning it into a respectable workstation and porting IOS to it, 
> and so far it's going well.  I've got 2.4.18 booting on the box, 
> and soon enough I hope to start building packages.
> 
> I hope (and this may be a vain hope) to build packages in sync on 
> both platforms--i.e. whenever IOS-x86 gets updated, so does 
> IOS-alpha.  The first version or two might lag behind, though...
> 
> The question now is: what minimum architecture should we support?  
> Just bare-metal "alpha", "alphaev5", or what?  Right now I'm 
> thinking just "alpha".  There were solid technical reasons for 
> going i486-minimum on x86 (LSB compliance, plus minor technical 
> shortcomings on i386 that preclude full LinuxThreads 
> functionality), but it might not be so on the Alpha.
> 
> I'm also thinking of posting a poll on inceptionos.org, to see 
> what our future userbase thinks...
> 
> -- 
> Kelledin
> "If a server crashes in a server farm and no one pings it, does 
> it still cost four figures to fix?"
> 
> 
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