On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 11:28 +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Thu 21 Aug 2008, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > Are there other developers still actively using alpha who are willing to do > > the work to maintain it? Or perhaps a more important question: does anyone > > foresee themselves still using alpha three years from now (1.5 years of > > lenny as stable, + 1 year of security support as oldstable)? > > I still use an alpha as firewall / mailserver / DNS server, > taking the way of security through obscure hardware :-) > Any stack overflows or whatever will probably not have any example > exploit code available for alpha's, as hardly anyone knows any > significant amount of alpha machine code... I have an Alphastation 600AU here. Amazing little box (600mhz, 1gb+ram, 15,000RPM drives). I'll be sad to no longer have use for it. > > That said, I'm in agreement with you about how alpha is becoming > obsolete, which I find a bit sad somehow; it had great potential. It did, its lack of future is no fault of Steve (of course other Alpha porters...) and the Debian Project. > > In my opinion it's safe to say that certainly three years from now, > alpha can be considered irrelevant, and continued support will indeed be > a waste of resources. If I still want my alpha firewall (assuming it > survives that long) I could build any packages myself, and I expect that > most people using alphas at that time would be in the same position. > Lacking the skills to help out, i wont be standing forward to help support Alpha. As such, I'm not in a position to critisise if (when?) support is dropped. kk > > Paul Slootman > > -- Karl Goetz, Debian user / Ubuntu contributor / gNewSense contributor http://www.kgoetz.id.au
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