[TriLUG] best distro for Alpha?

[Joseph Tate]

Gentoo 1.4 is supposed to have support for Alpha.  RC1 is out as we speak.

Neil L. Roeth wrote:
> I occasionally fire up my XP1000 running Debian, and it works well.  I pretty
> much run Debian on everything, so I can't help you in comparing it to other
> distros, but it was running RH when I got it.
> 
> On Oct 11, Thunder Bear (thunderbear at yonderway.com) 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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