Re: Debian-Alpha questions (&related ones)
On Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 10:45:31PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> So my questions are: How stable and complete is the Alpha port of
> Debian, and how good is Alpha's emulator for i386 Linux programs?
I use Debian/Alpha every single day, for everything from compiling up new
packages to managing all our Unix boxes using X and so forth. Very stable.
As for completeness, last time I checked, we were 300 packages from parity
with the i386 and 130 of those are either non-free or contrib.
However, several people have uploaded packages in the last week, and my
mirror's not been working, so our numbers are probably a little bit better.
Most of the remaining packages are fairly low-use things, I suspect, or ones
that aren't necessarily 64-bit clean and thus a big pain to try and clean
up.
> Can anyone reccommend an Alpha vendor with the new Alphas and an
> estimate of the cost of such a system? It appears that it would even
> rate quite favorable compared to a QUAD Xeon! Now the only problem is
> that I assume it will be out of my budget :-(
Sorry, my only alpha is a cheap old UDB.
Mike.
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