[TriLUG] best distro for Alpha?

[Jeff Bollinger]

Yeah, I suggest Windows NT.  Set it up and let the script kiddies fill it
up with hack tools that won't run on the Alpha architecture.  It's a great
way to pull apart some of their attacks to see how they work.

Jeff

On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Thunder Bear wrote:

> I got my Alphas home after the meeting and fired one of them up.  Noisy 
> sucker, but works fine so far.  After I got the blasted AlphaBIOS off 
> of it and the SRM firmware on, I was able to get OpenBSD installed.
> 
> I imagine Debian is a popular choice for this platform, but I'm 
> wondering if there are any other folks running older Alphas that have a 
> favorite distro for this platform.
> 
> Thunder Bear
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Jeff Bollinger
University of North Carolina
IT Security Analyst
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