[rescue] Re: Semi-OT: AlphaServer rescue question

[D.A. Muran-de Assereto]

Been running it on a pair of PC164's for a couple of years now. Quite stable
and fast. One of the machines handles my routine web/mail/news server stuff,
the other does web-mirroring with rsync, etc.
Not all of the ports collection works with Alpha. Occasionally, one of the
386 committers will commit a hostile patch to us Alphans. Had some success
with X, gnome, and KDE in testing, but since they're servers, I don't use
them much except for remote display echoing.
Overall, quite satisfied with it.

Dave Muran-de Assereto

> From: Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net>
> Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 18:08:30 -0600
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Re: Semi-OT: AlphaServer rescue question
> 
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 03:38:15PM -0800, Robert Novak wrote:
>> I won it in the auction and brought it in to work, and after some
>> frustration found that there's a safety interlock that would be tripped by
>> the (missing) front panel cover. It boots now, at least to the console
>> prompt... I'm installing FreeBSD 4.4 now (it's doing ports, whee).
> 
> How *is* FreeBSD/Alpha?  Last I looked at it, it was a "its here, but not
> supported" state, a couple of years ago.
> 
> bill
> 
> -- 
> Bill Bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> Austin, TX
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