Re: What have we learned? (WAS -RE: Idea: Reponse to the responses( was RE: Interesting idea....(at least I think so) ))
Hello Chris,
Thank you,
--George
On Tuesday 23 April 2002 07:41, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, alvin wrote:
> > If the likelyhood of RH selling more alpha boxed sets and support is
> > fast dwindling why not cut your losses. Both business and psychic. I am
> > sure it will not be too long before debian follows suit with RH and cuts
> > its support for the Alpha.
>
> Excuse me? Why are you so =sure= about Debian cutting Alpha support? I
> won't even go into why I *know* alpha won't be going away from Debian for
> quite awhile, but will say that the fact that we support m68k still is
> fairly telling...
>
> > What the alpha community needs more than a new distribution is somebody
> > to produce cost effective motherboards. A daughter card that would plug
> > into an X86 processor slot/socket might go a long way to breathing life
> > into the Alpha.
>
> So, let me get this straight, according to your comments, two of the three
> major Alpha distributions of Linux will be dropping support and you're
> saying that we need new motherboards? Putting the cart before the
> proverbial horse a bit, aren't we? If there isn't a dist to run on any
> new boards, what makes you think that they'll sell?
>
> C
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