http://www.alphalinux.org/wiki/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Alpha_Linux_Wiki%3ACommunity_Portal 2026-05-25T06:42:59Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.31.7 http://www.alphalinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Alpha_Linux_Wiki:Community_Portal&diff=112&oldid=prev 2019-10-12T10:09:58Z

<p>Imported from http://web.archive.org/web/20100713085210/http://www.alphalinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Alpha_Linux_Wiki:Community_Portal&amp;action=edit</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>== Distributions ==<br /> <br /> In the past, most major distributions supported the Alpha Architecture, but as time goes on, fewer continue to maintain their ports.<br /> <br /> === Current ===<br /> <br /> [http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/alpha Gentoo] Linux has a maintained Alpha port.<br /> <br /> An experimental [http://buildsys.zero42.at/ Fedora port] is also available, but it appears dead, being last updated in April 2009.<br /> <br /> Until Debian Lenny, [http://www.debian.org/ports/alpha/ Debian] maintained an Alpha port. Debian Squeeze will not support Alpha.<br /> <br /> [http://www.openwall.com/Owl/ Openwall] 2.0 has an Alpha port. The development branch is not built on Alpha. Further support for Alpha is dependent on user feedback. If you use Openwall on Alpha, please provide feedback on the owl-users mailing list.<br /> <br /> === Unmaintained ===<br /> <br /> Many Linux distributions once supported Alpha, but do not any longer or have been discontinued. The following lists distributions who supported Alpha in the past and the last Alpha-supporting release.<br /> <br /> * Red Hat 7.2<br /> * AlphaCore 3<br /> * CentOS 4.6<br /> * SuSE 7.1<br /> <br /> FreeBSD also discontinued their Alpha port after the 6.x series.<br /> <br /> == Newsgroups ==<br /> <br /> A few newsgroups exist for Alpha users, namely<br /> * [http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.alpha/topics comp.os.linux.alpha] for discussion of running Linux on Alpha<br /> * [http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.dec/topics comp.sys.dec] for discussion about DEC Computers<br /> * [http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.ports.alpha linux.debian.ports.alpha] for discussion of running Debian on Alpha<br /> <br /> While not pertaining to Linux or Alpha, hardware information may be found in the [http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.vms/topics comp.sys.vms] and [http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.tru64/topics comp.unix.tru64] newsgroups.<br /> <br /> == Mailing Lists ==<br /> <br /> The main mailing list for Alpha Linux users is the [http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/axp-list axp-list] hosted by Red Hat.<br /> <br /> Also, [http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml Gentoo] and [http://www.debian.org/ports/alpha/links#lists Debian] both have Alpha related lists.<br /> <br /> The Red Hat list gets the most traffic and isn't geared toward a specific Linux distribution. The Gentoo list has extremely low volume and it entirely for Gentoo related discussion.<br /> <br /> An Alpha/Linux Kernel mailing list is hosted at vger.kernel.org. To subscribe, send an email to '''majordomo@vger.kernel.org''' with a blank subject line with body '''subscribe linux-alpha'''. Archives are located on [http://marc.info/?l=linux-alpha&amp;r=1&amp;w=2 marc.info].<br /> <br /> While not pertaining to Linux, Alpha hardware information may be found in the [http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-alpha/ FreeBSD Alpha], [http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-alpha/ NetBSD Alpha], [http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-alpha&amp;r=1&amp;w=2 OpenBSD Alpha] Mailing Lists.<br /> <br /> == IRC ==<br /> <br /> A general Alpha discussion channel exists at #alpha on irc.freenode.net. Also, a Gentoo oriented channel exists at #gentoo-alpha, also on Freenode.<br /> <br /> == Forums ==<br /> <br /> Gentoo has a [http://forums.gentoo.org/viewforum-f-32.html Gentoo on Alternative Architectures] forum. Nekochan.net hosts an [http://forums.nekochan.net/viewforum.php?f=18 HP/DEC/Compaq] forum.</div>

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