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April 28th 1999 |
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Kernel 2.2.7 has been released and is now available at ftp.alphalinux.org/kernel/v2.2 .
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April 28th 1999 |
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Alpha Processor Inc has released the results
of their survey from LinuxWorld San Jose. Both the
press release and the survey results are
available from the API website.
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April 28th 1999 |
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www.3dlinux.org is reporting that Houdini will be
ported not only to Linux on the i386 but also AlphaLinux. The original release from
Side Effects Software is available at the sidefx.com webiste.
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April 26th 1999 |
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RedHat has released version 6.0 of its RedHat Linux operating system
(although it has yet to appear on the ftp sites). More information can be found in
this press release.
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April 26th 1999 |
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Blender version 1.61 has been released and is now available for AlphaLinux from www.blender.nl.
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April 26th 1999
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There are improved sin/cos/tan/cotan routine.
It's about 10% faster than libffm-0.28's version and good for random
values(such as +-+-...). But I've not made sure enough whether it
works.
And dgemm runs about 10MFlops faster than yesterday's version(about
855 to 865MFlops, 21164A, 600MHz, size is 1000x1000 to 3000x3000).
I'll put at:
ftp://www.netstat.ne.jp/pub/Linux/Linux-Alpha-JP/BLAS
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April 19th 1999
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Craig P. Prescott is looking to provide support in AlphaLinux
for the older TurboChannel based machines. His original request for information is available from the axp-list archives. If you have
information or are willing to help him out please drop Craig an email.
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April 18th 1999
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Compaq president and CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer has resigned one day after the board told him they wanted
new leadership. More information can be found in the
New York Times (registered site) and Compaq's own press area.
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April 16th 1999
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Gnome 1.0.8 is now available at ftp.alphalinux.org.
More information can be found at the Gnome homepage.
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April 16th 1999
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Version 1.60 of Blender for AlphaLinux is to be released Saturday April 17th. More information
can be found at the Blender homepage.
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April 16th 1999
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RedHat has released new RPMs for procmail and
rsync due to security problems. Updates are available from
ftp.alphalinux.org.
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April 14th 1999
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New variants of the blas-alpha and lapack rpms compiled against
the cpml have been released. They are
available from
ftp://ftp.neuro.uni-oldenburg.de/pub/alpha/lapack.html.
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April 6th 1999
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From Rick Niles:
Here at NASA as well as in most the engineering world we use Matlab
extensively for analysis work. MathWorks the company that makes
Matlab was one of the very first commerical vendors to add support for
Linux/i386. Now they they say they'd probably add support for
Linux/Alpha if enough people indicate that they want it. They already
have support for Tru64 Unix on Alpha so it shouldn't be a difficult
port. Let's get Matlab running on both the best OS AND the fastest
processor at once. Please
write to them. Refer to
techinical solution #4804, support for Linux on Alpha. Please
make sure to be nice and thank them for supporting Linux/i386. If you
really want to make a point you might even try calling them
508-647-7000.
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April 6th 1999
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A new ftp site for downloading the SuSE beta is now available. The address is
ftp.space4u.com/pub/SuSE/.
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April 6th 1999
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news.com is running
an article on the release of the new high-end ES40 Alpha servers. The article also goes to say "
Later this year, the company will release in-house compiler technology that will mean software for Linux-Alpha will run twice as fast on average",
and that the cost of these compilers will be "between zero and very little".
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April 5th 1999
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If you're interested in the K7 and EV6 bus architecture, check out these two articles from Ace's Hardware. The
first article is about the bus architecture
behind the EV6, and the second focuses
on the K7 chip itself.
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April 5th 1999
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The SuSE AXP beta is now available via ftp from
ftp.cs.virginia.edu/pub/lindahl/SuSE. Note: the install directions are currently in German only.
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April 2nd 1999
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Blender version 1.59 has been released for AlphaLinux. For more information
go to the Blender Download page.
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April 1st 1999
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After several weeks of work here at AlphaLinux.org we've finally come up with a new style
for the front page. As always we're looking for feedback, if you've got anything to say
feel free to send it along to our
webmaster.
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April 1st 1999
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AlphaLinux.org to be powered by an AS1200.
With much thanks to Compaq the AlphaLinux.org website will soon be powered by an
AlphaServer 1200. This is the second large hardware donation Compaq has made to the Linux
community, since the merger of Digital.
The ALO will be utilizing this new system to it's fullest potential. We
will be introducing an online real-time web interface for ray tracing and
fractal generation to demonstrate the speed of the system and compare
render times to other architectures and systems.
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April 1st 1999
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Microway has joined several other vendors as
sponsors of alphalinux.org. We at ALO would like to thank Microway for their support
of alphalinux.org.
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April 1st 1999
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In case you haven't noticed Digital (or rather Compaq Digital Products) has a new and
redesigned web page.
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