Re: our new alphas...
On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Brandon Peterson wrote:
> At my school we just got a new 366mhz Alpha, and another will be coming in
> soon... (We got it broken, had to be fixed before we got to use it :> )
Sorry to hear about your machine troubles, but glad to hear that it's
being taken care of :)
> Anyway, once I get it running to the point of being somewhat usable, etc.
> we would be willing to make accounts for people to compile apps on. I'll
> let you all know when the machine is ready. We also have several very
> talented young men here who would be happy (willing?) to work on porting
> programs to the alpha.
Great! A reminder, in case you missed my posting earlier...we have a
working fakeroot package now which will help you with the various security
issues involved with letting others build packages on your machine.
Granted, it does throw quite a bit of unaligned trap warnings (hey,
there's something that your guys can work on...hehehe), but it works like
a champ.
> Let me know via email about requests, etc.
I, for one, would like some access since you offered :) I'm frequently
having to compile larger packages and it's pretty painful on my poor
166-UDB with a paltry 24MB RAM. Smaller stuff still will be built on my
box, but at least we can get a good "engine" going for compilation of
larger stuff :)
Keep me posted on your progress with the machines. If I can be of any
assistance somehow, let me know :)
Thanks for the offer, btw :)
Chris
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