Re: The State of Alpha Linux

2009-01-12 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Oliver Falk wrote: > > If you think there's a chance you might be able to take over the job, > > I encourage you to mail libc-ports, as I don't know the answers > > myself. > > As I said, since I don't know what skills one must have, I'm not sure if I > might be able to take o

Re: The State of Alpha Linux

2009-01-12 Thread Brian Szymanski
Oliver Falk wrote: > > It might be wise to still support a base OS, without the X gimmicks... > +1 -- that would be mighty useful to me, but I'm not sure if that could reasonably be called "debian" (or redhat for that matter) Brian Szymanski -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-alpha-requ...@list

Re: The State of Alpha Linux

2009-01-12 Thread Oliver Falk
Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 02:23:39PM +0100, Oliver Falk wrote: Matt Turner wrote: The State of Alpha Linux We're all subscribed to this list because we use a dying platform. You think it's dying? :-P Well, at least the Debian alpha port is not likely to continue past

Re: The State of Alpha Linux

2009-01-12 Thread Oliver Falk
Julien Cristau wrote: On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 11:32 -0500, Matt Turner wrote: No, I don't think this is the problem at all. jcristau, the developer who told me he didn't care, has at least one alpha. I used to have (remote) access to an alpha. I don't anymore (other than Debian's port machine).