alphas and linux

[Alex Snow]

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I'm actually looking at  getting a complete system, possibly a au-500.
some searching comes up with several mentions of this machine related 
to linux so it seems supported.
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 10:17:20PM +0000, 
Garry Turkington wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> 
> Best bet for an Alpha is likely one of the EV56 chips on the SX-164 series
> of motherboards.  I've got a mangled Red Hat install on one of these which
> I plan to migrate to Debian when I get some time.  Beauty of this platform
> is that its an ATX board that takes standard memory and even PCI cards -
> so your chances of putting together a full system with bits lying in the
> cupboard are pretty high.  The boards are available readily on eBay, I
> looked into getting one when my Alpha looked sick last year, though it
> happily recovered.  Of course you'll likely get an old AlphaStation for a
> pretty low price anyway if you want to buy something ready to go.
> 
> Check out www.alphalinux.org which I just see talks of an upcoming Fedora
> port for the Alpha, hurrah!
> 
> Regards,
> Garry
> 
> 
> 
> Garry Turkington
> garry.turkington at acm.org
> 
> 
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