--- Paul Dorneanu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am wondering what Redhat is doing with the alpha > release. The last > release for an alpha is the 7.1. Would be great to > see a release in the > coming future for the alpha platform, after the > release of 7.3. I am I once was looking forward to seeing the Alpha architecture taking off - imagine, a desktop PC with the kind of stellar MHz (GHz) rating as the P4 but that actually do useful things.
Unfortunately the architecture is now as much as dead. Blame Compaq for that :(. The slide has been evident for some time, really - when Pentium was released (66 MHz) the Alpha was going 2.5x faster (150 MHz) by clock speed alone (probably more than 6 times faster in FPU), by 1999/2000 they have been overtaken in pure clockspeed terms. Probably we cannot expect a full-blown commercial release for Alpha then. Would be nice if Red Hat maintains an installable tree for Alpha, though, sans official support. In any case, there's always distributions like Debian if you need to keep an esoteric architecture relatively up-to-date (not that Alpha is esoteric as yet) > from 8.0 we should > expect a buggy release with new technologies > inside... who knows, maybe > support for the 2.5.x kernel. > Curently, a 5.2 on an alpha is doing a great job, > but it's very old. You can actually run a 2.5.x kernel even on Red Hat 7.2 - not too sure about 7.1 . As yet it does not require any new compiler/library not available on recent distribution releases. I expect Red Hat to announce one of its future versions (8.1?) kernel 2.6 ready, though. Hopefully 2.6 will be in the horizon by that time (this time next year, that is). I do remember predictions that 2.4 will take no longer than 6 months :p Regards, Michel __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
