i've had debian runnin on a herd (20, but they are slowly dieing off) of ES40's for nearly two years. they are not super fast, by todays standards, but they are quite stable:
uname -a Linux dove-01 2.4.26-1-smp #1 SMP Sat May 1 17:27:38 EST 2004 alpha GNU/Linux dove-01:~# uptime 07:30:13 up 88 days, 17:34, 1 user, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00 -- mcihael On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 08:46:34PM -0300, Roberto de Iriarte wrote: > Dear sirs. > > Some years ago, i used to be a big Alpha fan (Collector maybe), getting > to own several 21064 and 21164 based machines. I gave up on the hobby, > but have been offered a nice DS20 in a small cabinet (E model) > lately that i could use as a second machine at home. > > Unfortunately, i am very unaware of the state of "desktop computing" on > the alpha. > Should I dust off my SRM handbook and go for it ? > > BTW, i could use some advice on decent video adaptors that work on the > Alpha, > I remember hunting down a PCI Radeon back in 2002 (long gone) , > and getting DRI going after a lengthy fight with gcc optimisations > that produced broken code .... > > Regards > Roberto de Iriarte. > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
