Alpha Core Directions

[Nelson Brito]

In fact i am in the 2nd group and i wont retire my alphas while they can 
do their work. But i don't intend to update/upgrade anything anymore... 
the last update i did was to RH 7.2 just because i needed some libs to 
run some scientific software. I don't think i'll upgrade linux on these 
machines.
Unfortunately i have to quit on the alphas when something brokes...
perhaps in the future i won't be using linux on alpha anymore :-(
regards,
nb

Nelson de Brito
http://www.fc.up.pt/pessoas/ntbrito




Maurice Hilarius wrote:

> 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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