Re: Next release of AlphaCore? JUST DO IT

[Alvin Starr <alvin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Kronsteiner wrote:

> I would like to know too, because alphacore was more for
> gamers/techies/multimediafreaks. CentOS just missed some libraries, but
> thats what you have to expect from an OS for business (its more or less
> RHEL...)
> .. and i just bought a voodoo card for my sx164...
>
> So to say, im somewhat experienced with kernel compiling and configuring
> (which seemed to be an issue for ac2.0), but im very very limited in
> hardware (2x sx164, 1xas1000, 1xas2000, various flavours of dec 3000´s ...
> [no bragging if you want one mail me])
>
> My personal thought is the alphacore developers are now working with
> centos... dont cry, as some famous sports-shoes maker said 
>
> "JUST DO IT"
>
> ...
>
>  
Would it not be worh while setting up a yum-repository that has the 
extra bits/features instead of trying to support a whole other distirbution.
There are so few alpha geeks left around reinventing the wheel seems to 
be a shamefull waste of resources.

But that is only my opinion.

This all being said. I do have an Alpha that I could make available to 
host a repository and mirror or two. It has 30G of diskspace and I have 
a couple of 100Mbit internet feeds so that a little extra load would not 
be too big an issue.
I unfortunatly don't have the time to do much with it just now but if 
someone wants to step up to the plate I can give them an SSH account and 
the keys to run the thing.

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