Re: Preparing for the freeze (was: Obsolete packages in main/oldlibs)
>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Slootman <paul@wau.mis.ah.nl> writes:
Paul> Of course, I think Alpha's aren't often used just for networking;
Paul> their CPU performance put them into a different market segment.
Paul> Use the old, otherwise obsolete 486's for gatewaying etc...
Hummm... My Multia makes a real nice gateway/server/whatever. But this
is quite a 486-class machine, althought it is the fastest I own... ;-)
>> I hope we will not have to wait until 2.2.x kernels are out.
Paul> I don't think so. If Red Hat dare to ask money for their current Alpha
Paul> release, we can release Debian/Alpha 2.1 for free without feeling guilty
Paul> :-)
Having recently switched from RH4.2 to 2.0-beta, I'm REALLY pleased
with the whole system. Nice, fast, efficient. Just as Debian/i386.
MUCH better than RH has ever been.
There's only a few minor things to do to support 2.1.X kernels
(although 2.0-beta does quite a good job in this respect), and maybe
add pcmcia package.
The main point is : We should push Debian/Alpha out ASAP, since the
system is really clean, and that would show quite a lot of people that
RH is NOT the only kid in town... ;-)
Marc.
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