[Info-vax] vtAlpha and marketing bullshit

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In article <555d73aa-d752-4f40-ad21-7826d17a8ff3 at d10g2000vbh.googlegroups.com>, hb <becker.avd at gmail.com> writes:
>> On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:31:48 +0000, ChrisQ wrote:
>> > Alpha Linux development seems to be at an end. Shame, as there are still
>> > many machines out there that could benefit from having a modern,
>> > properly sorted os to run on them. Yes, I know we have vms, but it's
>> > expensive and hard work in terms of getting open source software
>> > running on it...
>
>Gentoo still supports Alpha (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/),
>however its installation is not as convenient as SuSE or Debian. SuSE
>8.1 and Debian Lenny were the last (supported) versions of these
>distros.

I believe this is also where Debian dropped off with Itanium support.

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