[TriLUG] Linux on Alpha...

[Neil Roeth]

On May 14, Michael Sh (mnh_222 at lycos.com) wrote:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > For reasons of nostalgia, I went looking for a DEC VAX machine, and ended
 > up with a few DEC Alpha's.  (2) servers (an EB64+ and a PC164LX), a DEC
 > 3100 workstation (3000/300L), and a DEC Multia UDB (sort of an early
 > version of a micro-box)...  One will run OpenVMS (also for nostalgia
 > purposes), but the others will be set up as practical linux boxes.  I've
 > been looking at "Alpha-Linux" and Debian/GNU Linux's Alpha port.  Is there
 > anyone on the list running either or another distribution on an Alpha that
 > could give me a few pointers or caveats?

I have an XP1000 running Debian.  The video card that came with the machine is
not supported under Linux for X, so I do not use the video card.  Works fine
to run an X app on it and display elsewhere, though.  Besides that, after I
get past SRM and get it booted, it acts just like my Intel box running Debian.

-- 
Neil Roeth