Re: current status of alpha in squeeze

["A.B." <arne-bombach@foni.net>]

Thank you for helpful suggestions

Am 28.03.2011 22:04, schrieb Matt Turner:
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 7:28 PM, A.B.<arne-bombach@foni.net>  wrote:
> > I did not find any distribution which could run on my alphas.
I've been not very exactly, sorry. In the past i already tried a very 
old version of a Mandrake version - successful.
But the system halted after a while - today i know - it was the Matrox 
video-card.
In the last two weeks i reanimated the alphas - knowing they are very 
old - so i tried gentoo and netBSD for alpha with less success and no gui.
Then i looked for debian squeeze for Alpha - and we are still looking 
;-) - first i thought squeeze was ported to Alpha, too.
But only older versions of debian are ported - so i started looking for 
a netinst.iso-download and i'm still looking.
Of course i've been on your wiki-page during my search.
Is there realy no free download-link for a debian netinst.iso for Alpha 
in the web?

> I don't think you looked very hard. I wrote this page in Nov 2008 and
> it's barely changed since:
> http://alphalinux.org/wiki/index.php/Alpha_Linux_Wiki:Community_Portal#Distributions
>
> > Are my computers interesting and/or practical for your purposes or are the
> > realy out-dated?
> They're pretty outdated, especially things older than EV6. For, say,
> an 800 MHz UP1500, it's a usable, if a bit slow, system.
Oh - i thought that the Alphas are very old - but not ueseless and that 
they should be new tablet-pcs ;-)
If i find an running "netinst" (perhaps you know where) then i will 
start a last try for learning purposes
like it was my first intention.

> Matt
Many thanks!
Arne