Re: on Debian/Alpha

[Maurice Hilarius <maurice harddata com>]

With regards to your message at 07:03 AM 10/23/01, Daniel Green. Where you 
stated:
> Alright, I'm game.  Where are the debain cd images.  I have searched around
> their ftp site, and can't find any alpha cd images.
> I can't/don't want to do a net install.  What are the options for getting
> debian on CD.
>
> Dan
Before we all go "leaping" to Deb, I think you might want to read an 
excerpt from the Deb Alpha list from 2 days ago:

"Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 15:24:54 +0200
From: Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de>
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Subject: Dropping alpha
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Christopher C. Chimelis wrote:
>
> With lully being down so long and nobody following up on my emails about
> it, I'm unable to compile anything for stable.

Looks like we'll have to drop alpha in the future then.  Sadly..."

While this does not actually mean that they will drop Alpha, I think that 
there are much more resources and contributors on the Red Hat stream than 
the Debian one.

Debian is fine as an OS packaging.
But, let's not get too hasty here!



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