[rescue] Alpha and Linux?

[Toby Thain]

On 2020-02-12 12:16 AM, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On 2/12/20 12:11 AM, William Barnett-Lewis wrote:
>> I am pondering if i should try using a version of Linux on my Alphastation
>> 200 4/266. I'm considering it for the simple reason that I hope to build
>> more modern software on it than is available for Tru64 and still have the
>> ability to run the Open Genera application with the Tru64 support.
>>
>> Gentoo appears to be fairly recent - 2014. Debian dropped support around
>> 5.0 2009  but it is all still there online.
>>
>> Anyone here try this or am I better off sticking with Tru64? This is an
>> older machine with a maxed out 768 mb of ram ;)
>>
>> Thoughts?
> 
>   I tried running Linux on Alphas many years ago.  I wasn't particularly

It ran fine.

--T

> impressed, but then Linux in general really didn't impress me much back
> then either. (times sure have changed)
> 
>   For that hardware I'd recommend NetBSD.  I've not run it on an Alpha
> recently, but a few years ago it used to be quite good on that platform.
> 
>           -Dave