Alpha Core Directions

[Maurice Hilarius]

Hi Mike.
 From what i can see the current Alpha Linux users are mainly in two groups:
1) A "hobby" set, as you touched on
2) a fair amount of people are still running Alpha servers and clusters 
for scientific computing. they may now be "old" machines, but they still 
find them useful, and will not retire them anytime soon.

I think that in general the main focus points for both are:
Modern kernels and updates.
Anything for optimization of performance libraries.


Mike Barnes wrote:

> Hi folks - got a bit of breathing space over the next day or so, and 
> thought I'd get some input for the early-next-year planned release of 
> Alpha Core 0.92, which should be a pretty major step towards something 
> I feel comfortable slapping a "1.0" release number on.
>
> It's going to draw quite heavily from the Fedora Core 3 release 
> sources, but I really think it needs to be slimmed down quite a bit. 
> That's where some input would be welcome.
>
> First up - am I correct in thinking that most users/potential users 
> would be using this on "hobby" machines? If so, is a focus more on 
> "desktop" than "server" functionality appropriate? I'm not talking 
> about dropping Apache or Samba or anything - but some of the more 
> esoteric stuff could go. Anyone's thoughts on this would be great.
>
>
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