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It was alluded to in another post, but gentoo exists for the alpha. There aren't a huge number of people running it, so basically very few things are marked "stable". I doubt the Debian situation is much better. I don't own an alpha, but in my days at Microway I got gentoo working on an LX164 alpha with KDE, etc. mostly just to prove that I could. Regardless of whether you go with gentoo, you should know that there is a downloadable "live disk" you can boot to help you do whatever you might want to do with a live disk built for alpha. It's on all the gentoo mirrors, with URLs like: http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo/releases/alpha/2005.0/installcd/ They also have documentation that's thorough enough to install a source distro, so if you run into problems, you might find it a handy reference. -- David Backeberg (dave at math.mit.edu) Network Staff Assistant MIT Math Dept. Rm. 2-332 (617) 253-4995
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