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March 31st 1999
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Alpha Processor Inc. has announced the winner of their
Alpha Workstation giveaway. More information can be found on the
Alpha Processor website.
Cnet is running an article on the
upcoming Alpha products from Compaq. The article includes some rather discouraging quotes from
RedHat's Bob Young.
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March 24rd 1999
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egcs-1.1.2 has been packaged into rpms and is now available at ftp.alphalinux.org.
Please read the README
file in that directory to install it correctly. If you have any questions
you can email me. -Peter
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March 23rd 1999
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Cnet is running a
piece on Compaq using Linux to increase Alpha sales. Included in the article
is a rumor of Pacific HiTech making an Alpha port.
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March 20th 1999
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SuSE is evidently handing out copies of SuSE 6.1 beta for the Alpha at CeBit in Hannover, with the final product
having an intended ship date in May.
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March 18th 1999
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Uncle George has released version 4 of the Java 1.2 development kit for AlphaLinux. You can
find it at ftp.alphalinux.org.
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March 17th 1999
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We have it from a reliable source that MetroLink (MetroX) will not be porting their Metro Extreme 3D (OpenGL)
X servers over to the Alpha. They are citing a lack of market for selling the product. However the good news is that
Xi Graphics has started work on a hardware-accelerated AcceleratedX OpenGL server product for AlphaLinux.
So if you are
interested in the success of OpenGL on Alpha we encourage you to write to Xi Graphics about this and tell them
that there is a market for their product.
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March 13th 1999
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From the rumor department we have a couple of interesting news items.
First is that SuSE alpha distribution will be released next week.
Second is that Compaq has sold it's TOEM division. In the words of one Compaq employee "OEM is not part of Compaq's business
model" The likely buyer at this point seems the be IBM. Rumor has it that they are interested in producing Alpha motherboards,
chipsets and possibly CPUs.
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March 9th 1999
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We'd like to welcome our newest member to our fast growing
organization. Daniel J. Frasnelli joined us last week in our quest
to increase the use of both Linux and the Alpha Processor.
His interests include cryptography, security, and distributed systems.
Debian 2.1 (slink) has been released
on schedule.
Release notes and install instructions are available for Alpha. We'll pull down a copy
of this onto ftp.alphalinux.org as soon as possible. Update
03-09-99 Debian-Slink is now available at ftp.alphalinux.org.
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March 8th 1999
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Kernel version 2.2.3 has been released.
This includes the fixes for Alpha that stopped 2.2.2 from compiling.
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March 5th 1999
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Just a warning to everybody that on Saturday March 6th we are going to be performing some
hardware maintenance so www.alphalinux.org and ftp.alphalinux.org may be unavailable for
parts of the day.
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March 3rd 1999
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The Register has an article on the Alpha. Rumor has it that it'll be able to clock
speeds of 1.4GHz by the end of 2001 and reach speeds of 1100MHz
by the end of this year.
If you're interested in games, it seems the upcoming Civilization (Call to Power) game will be
ported to Alpha. Has anybody seen this game yet at LinuxWorld Expo?
Compaq has released a Portable Math Library
(CPML) for AlphaLinux. Compaq claims the library is faster than the standard Linux libm and "with a few exceptions" is faster
than libffm. You must register before downloading the library.
Compaq has put out this press
release detailing additional support for Linux. It also mentions that Compaq has donated a AlphaServer DS20 system to Linus for Linux development.
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March 2nd 1999
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Siamese Systems had released some
8-pack cases that holds up to 8 Alpha motherboard in one case.
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March 1st 1999
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Debian 2.1 codename slink has been released for Intel, Alpha, Amiga, Atari, and Sparc. That makes two
officially released Alpha distributions with more on the way. ftp.alphalinux.org will be mirroring slink for Alpha shortly. Update 03-02-1999
The release of slink has been delayed by a week due to problems with dkpg. The release is now scheduled for release on
March 9, 00:00 GMT.
There's a patch courtesy of Oliver Soell that allows UDMA patches for the 164sx
to compile on Alpha. You can either download
his patches to the UDMA driver, or download
the UDMA driver with the patch already applied.
The Alpha FAQ has been updated to version 1.1.5.
We've added a page with information on known problems in RedHat 5.2. This includes the
RedHat errata list as well as other problems that haven't been reported by RedHat yet. If you know of any other
RedHat 5.2 problems please send in a description
and we'll see they get added to the list.
ftp.alphalinux.org now has the necessary RPMs for you to update the kernel
2.2.x. You can find these in the /pub/AXP/redhat/updates/kernel
directory.
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