on Debian/Alpha

["James D. Freels" <freelsjd ornl gov>]

It is not good that Red Hat decides not to support the Alpha.
Further, readers of this mailing list act as if using Debian/Alpha
was somehow a step down.  Be Happy!  You finally have a legitimate 
reason to use and support Debian/Alpha.  I have two Alphas running
Debian/Alpha/Woody and v2.4.12 of the kernel.  I am very happy 
with these systems and have never looked back when I reformatted the
hard drives to remove the pre-installed RedHat from those systems 
(several years ago).

The main thing I like about Debian is the ease of upgrading.  apt-get is
perhaps the best upgrade tool ever.  Further, the Alpha systems are
consistent with the Intel systems and both maintained exactly the same 
way.  Take a look at www.debian.org.

-- 
James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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