Re: CentOS on wildfire

["Dialup Jon Norstog" <thursday@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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---------- Original Message -----------
From: Sergey Tikhonov <tsv@xxxxxxxx>
To: Linux on Alpha processors <axp-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 19:14:01 +0400
Subject: Re: CentOS on wildfire

> Robin Humble wrote:
> 
>
> >
> >I've built the update 4 rpms and it seems a shame to waste them by
> >not pushing t..........

> Surely, it might be a lot of work. :) I have almost all packages 
> built for AC3, but modular xorg doesn't work on my Radeon. :( I 
> haven't had time to understand what could be wrong, but all my 
> attempts failed. I doubt that that AC3 could be usefull for 
> workstations. :(
> 
> >however, I don't have a clue about how to make a CentOS 4.4 iso from
> >rpms, or how to seed a bittorrent, and am not all that keen to deal
> >with lots of CentOS politics (if it exists) either.
> >  
> >
> If you like I could give you instructions how to build isos out of 
> bunch of packages. Hope it would work for CentOS too.
> 
> >that's why I was asking here - for help with the above and for help
> >keeping CentOS for alpha alive...
> >  
> >
> PS. If it is interesting to someone - I was able to implement JIT 
> for Mono C# on Linux/Alpha. It is not even in beta version yet, but 
> does pass a lot of internal tests and could print "Hello world!". :)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Sergey Tikhonov
> 
> Solvo Ltd.
> Saint-Petersburg, Russia
> tsv@xxxxxxxx
>

Sergey!

You're still on the case!  I thought, having distinguished yourself by putting
together 3 distros, you had moved on to the mainstream Linux world.

Glad to hear you're working on AC3.  Too bad about the Radeon, that's the most
available high-power card for Alpha anymore.

good luck

jn