Subject: Re: Alpha NT´er gone linux!
From: astauber (astauber@europa1.conwaycorp.net)
Date: Thu Aug 26 1999 - 22:25:39 PDT
Hi Peter.. Take a look at the Suse distribution. I noticed the Sound listed
MP3-Player and MIDI-Sequencer.
http://www.suse.de/e/axp/axp.html
Here are the features listed below..
Image manipulation: Gimp 1.1, blender, imageMagick
Programming: C/C++, Fortran, Pascal, ...
Sound: CD-Player, MOD-Player, MP3-Player, MIDI-Sequencer, ...
Typesetting: teTeX, Latex, Ghostscript 5.10
Network: TCP/IP, NFS, UUCP, PPP, IPX, Ncpfs (Access to Novell 3.x),
Appletalk, HAM radio, ISDN, SMB (Windows), Tokenring, Arcnet, ...
Databases:MySQL
Internet: WWW, Mail, News, IRC, DNS, Fireball, ...
Editors: Emacs, vi, joe, aXe, nedit
Unix-Tools:awk, sed, grep, find, rcs, make, groff, bison, flex, perl, m4
Window Manager: fvwm/fvwm95, WindowMaker, icewm
Emulators:several
Cheers,
CA
----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Lizon (home) <peter@lizon.com>
To: <axp-list@redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 7:29 PM
Subject: Re: Alpha NT´er gone linux!
> Ok,
>
> let the beginner questions begin: The RedHat site says there is no
SoundCard
> and scanner support on AlphaLinux. Is this true? To what extent?I mostly
> have plain SB-16s in my Alphas an I also have a few HP-ScanJet 4c scanners
> that were the only scanners that ran on AlphaNT since day one . .
>
> Thanks
>
> Peter Lizon
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dan Morrill <morrildl@nycap.rr.com>
> To: <axp-list@redhat.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 9:44 PM
> Subject: Re: Alpha NT´er gone linux!
>
>
> > On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Peter Lizon wrote:
> >
> > > Anyway, you'll see a flood of Linux beginners here soon, so please be
> > > patient . .
> >
> > Heh... they're certainly welcome. Maybe this will push the Alpha up
past
> > PowerPC to the second most popular architecture for Linux. ;)
> >
> >
> > Speaking of which, that always struck me as rather odd (that PowerPC
Linux
> > users outnumber Alpha Linux users) since the Alpha is older, faster, and
> more
> > in line with the tinkerer's nature of Linux users. (Though the PowerPC
is
> > also in line with the woefully underfinanced nature of Linux users.
Maybe
> > that wins out.)
> >
> > Does anyone know of anything approaching a census or distribution of
Linux
> > usage on the various architectures? It's hard enough just to count
Intel
> > Linux users, so I doubt it, but I thought I'd ask.
> >
> > Just out of curiosity...
> >
> >
> > Dan Morrill
> > Computer Scientist, Physicist
> >
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