Fedora and Alpha

Angus MacGyver macgyver at calibre-solutions.co.uk
Sun Aug 24 20:37:36 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 15:56 -0400, Joe Klemmer wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Seann Clark wrote:
> 
> >   I am wondering, what the last revision of Fedora (if any) supported a 
> > DEC Alpha based system? I have an old Alpha with NT4 on it (eew) and am 
> > looking at something to put on this for it to be a good workstation, and 
> > to have a few fun choices. I am looking at Alphalinux as one but I 
> > remember quiet a few distro's used to support this platform. I am also 
> > wondering if anyone out there is doing this and using an alpha still.
> 
>  	To be honest I'd probably go with NetBSD (or FreeBSD if you like) 
> for this.  I have an UltraSPARC 5 that's to underpowered for current 
> Solaris versions and I've been thinking of doing that with it.
> 
>  	Just an option to keep in mind.


NetBSD, OpenBSD - Gentoo or Debian..

FreeBSD has retired the Alpha port for version 7.0+ - which is why I
ended up retiring my Alphas :-(

Regards

AM




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