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November 26th 1998
Linus has released the next development kernel, version 2.1.130, also known as the 'basted turkey release'.

I've made some updates to the docs on compiling a kernel to reflect IDE performance in the recent kernels and various other changes.

November 23rd 1998
Adam C. Powell IV has started a mailing list for high performance work on the Alpha. More info is available on the High Performance page.

November 22th 1998
We've added some pages for information on DSP and Electrical Engineering on Alpha-Linux (thanks to Michael J. Graffam for this information).

November 19th 1998
Linus has released 2.1.129. You can read his comments on it, 2.2 can't be far away.

November 17th 1998
RedHat has released two security advisories. The first involves sysklogd and all versions of RedHat. The second relates to Samba and is a only problem with RedHat 5.2. Updates are available from updates.redhat.com.

Update: Samba packages for older releases of RedHat may also be vulnerable. Everybody is advised to upgrade to the latest RPMs.

November 16th 1998
Kernel version 2.0.36 has been released. You can get it from ftp.kernel.org , mirrors may take a while to update. November 14th 1998
RedHat has placed a new ramdisk image file in the Linux/Alpha 5.2 errata. For those of you receiving a SIG11 when selecting packages during installation you should download the updated image from RedHat.

November 12th 1998
So I hope everybody likes the new look. If you have any comments or concerns please feel free to send them on the me at rdp@cheshire.net. Please take a look around and let me know if there are any problems. It's taken me a few hours to transfer all the information and it's quite possible I've made a mistake or two.

For those of you that haven't heard, kernel version 2.1.128 has been released.

RedHat has released some new products, you can now get a distribution with Intel, Alpha and SPARC CD-ROMs all for one price. I've placed my order!

November 11th 1998
Just received all the materials for the new site. Should be up in a day or two.

November 12th 1998
So I hope everybody likes the new look. If you have any comments or concerns please feel free to send them on the me at rdp@cheshire.net. Please take a look around and let me know if there are any problems. It's taken me a few hours to transfer all the information and it's quite possible I've made a mistake or two.

For those of you that haven't heard, kernel version 2.1.128 has been released.

RedHat has released some new products, you can now get a distribution with Intel, Alpha and SPARC CD-ROMs all for one price. I've placed my order!

November 11th 1998
Just received all the materials for the new site. Should be up in a day or two.

November 7th 1998
Kernel 2.1.127 has been released.

I've received word that the azstarnet site will no longer be updated. So I have started moving the various FAQs and HOWTOs over to alphalinux.org. They have yet to be updated but that will take place over the next few weeks.

The new look to alphalinux.org seems to be nearing completion. Hopefully within a few days things will be converted over.

November 5th 1998
Compaq has recently announced some information on new Alpha motherboards.

November 3rd 1998
RedHat has announced the release of RedHat version 5.2 for Alpha, Intel and SPARC.