Other distros (was RE: Waxing Philosophical)

[Rob B]

At 01:58 AM 1/10/2004, Donsbach, Jeff wrote:

>Mike Barnes wrote:
> > On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:35:23 -0400, Davis Johnson <davis at frizzen.com>
>wrote:
> >> My current windmill to tilt at is simultaniously/in parallel building
>
> >> linux-from-scratch ( http://www.linuxfromscratch.org ) on i386. alpha
>
> >> and sparc32. I'm rolling my own scripts as I go. I've got ppc  and
> >> mips machines that need miscelanious bits of kit.
> >
> > I've thought about that on several occasions. Don't think I've got the
>patience for Linux from Scratch, > though. :) The one I've got my eye on
>as an interesting system, and which I may try building on Alpha at >
>some point, is Gobo Linux. Their site is at http://www.gobolinux.org/,
>but it's frequently down.
>
>Thanks for the pointers. I'll check them out (boy, the Gobolinux site is
>really slow!)
>
>I've become a Gentoo fan myself.
<snip>

>In fact, if anyone wants to give it a go, there is a new Gentoo LiveCD
>for Alpha that needs some more testing. See here -
>http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=221670 . Post your results in
>the forum if it works for you.

Just to throw my hat in on this .. I actually use FreeBSD on my Alphas now, 
stopped using Linux about three years ago (and to tell the truth, I can't 
recall why I changed).  However, I still remain signed up to all the Linux 
distro mailing lists that support the Alpha arch, mainly because of the 
sense of community that the arch has as a whole.  This thread is an example 
of that :)

cheers,
rob


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