Mandrake Cooker AXP Archive
Re: [cooker-axp] Quiet here isn't it?

Subject: Re: [cooker-axp] Quiet here isn't it?
From: Rich Payne (rdp@talisman.alphalinux.org)
Date: Wed Mar 28 06:41:28 2001


On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Richard Simpson wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've been subscribing to this mailing list for the last 10 days and it seems a
> bit quiet. So I thought that I would ask a few questions:
>
> 1) Is there an archive of this list so that I don't have to ask dumb questions
> like these again?

Yup, but there's not much there at the moment :)
http://www.alphalinux.org/archives/cooker-axp/2001/
 
> 2) Currently I run 7.1 on my Alpha and the new 7.2Freq on my x86 machines. I
> have a policy of trying to run the same distribution on all my systems to ease
> the admin burden, and for that reason I switched to Mandrake from RedHat when
> Alpha support became available. The differences between my Alpha and the x86
> systems grows with each new i586 release. Are there any plans to bring out a
> new version for the Alpha soon. If not, then I shall have to move all my
> systems back to RedHat or over to SuSE.

Mandrake isn't going to release any new versions, but several people (on
this list) are working to keep it gong.

> 3) I would like to try Alpha cooker, but since the install system doesn't seem
> to have been upgraded I'm not sure how. Is it possible for me to upgrade
> from 7.1 to cooker? If so, how?

I'll let someone else answer that one.

--rdp

> Thanks,
>
> Richard Simpson
>
>

-- 
Rich Payne
rpayne@alphalinux.org			www.alphalinux.org



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