Re: Redhat 6.1

[Rich Payne <rdp talisman alphalinux org>]

On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Igor Schein wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 07:44:56PM -0700, Dan Frasnelli wrote:
> > > I wonder how Redhat beta's their software, does anyone know?  I for one
> > > have never seen beta releases for Redhat on Alpha.
> > 
> > Sure you have, remember the 5.9 beta? Keep in mind that this
> > public beta release trend is fairly recent - in the past, testing was
> > done behind closed doors.  One of the big problems RH has right
> > now is a lack of staff who use/want to use the Alpha platform.  Last I
> > heard - about 3 months ago - there was only one engineer with an Alpha on 
> > his desk.  Maybe somebody at RH would like to chime in and correct me? I
> > hope? 
> 
> This brings some concern and a question - which distribution has the most
> potential on Alpha platform?  By potential I mean widespread and
> popularity, commitment to development, maintaince and support.
> 
> What do we have now?  Redhat, Debian, SuSe, TurboLinux and Stampede
> are list on alphalinux.org.  TurboLinux does not yet support
> Alpha, Stampede is a pgcc distrubution, which implies Pentium family
> only ( please correct me if I'm wrong ).  
> 

TurboLinux has not yet released their Alpha
distribution, but I have seen the beta running and
they are working on it. 

As for Stampede, it struck
me a little strange they were doing an Alpha dist
(being pgcc based and all) so I at one point
removed them from the page. However since then
people have written to us stating that they are
indeed doing Alpha, but I have had no official
word from Stampede for a while.

--rdp



Rich Payne
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