Linux on Alpha...

[dave at math.mit.edu (David Backeberg)]

I could have said that more articulately. In the gentoo case, many things
are usable, but are nonetheless marked experimental. My understanding is
that this situation also applies to much of Debian. "Stability" seems to
take into account feedback from the users, and since an alpha user group
is drastically smaller than an x86 group, it follows that this cycle drags
out longer.

http://packages.gentoo.org/

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On Sun, 15 May 2005 dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote:

> On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 04:46:25PM -0400, David Backeberg wrote:
>> 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
>
> Debian still fully supports Alpha.
>
> http://www.debian.org/ports/alpha/port-status
>
> Unstable, testing and stable are all in good shape.
>
> -dsr-
>