Alpha Core 1.0a

[Balint Cristian]

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From: "Andrija Pantovic" <andrija.pantovic at ubs.com>
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Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 8:38 PM
Subject: Re: Alpha Core 1.0a


> Hello,
>
> Forgot to mention - the new Apache package is working ! the one in
> AlphaCore 0.9 was broken ....

Oh yes, Sergey fix glibc ....

>
> Regards
>
> On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 14:21 +0200, Balint Cristian wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> After a timeout and slow development of alpha core, me [Cristian Balint]
>>and a new volunteer Sergey Tikhonov, finaly developed next release of 
>>alpha core 1.0
>>wich is equivalent with fedora-FC3 but with lots of alpha specific fixes.
>>
>>
>> Unfortunatley Mike Barnes haven't the time these days to take major part 
>> of
>>development on this new tree, so we decided to release AlphaCore 1.0a now 
>>as-is.
>>
>> The main personality of the tree is the fact the Sergely fixed some 
>> important
>>threading suport in glibc to switch corectly between nptl and 
>>linuxthreads, so application
>>run more stable and few bugs present even in 0.9 are gone now. The second 
>>major thing
>>is the kernel, we used 2.6.10 because between 2.6.6<>2.6.10 the mainline 
>>kernel was
>>broken for alpha, and we disable few things wich are unstable/unusable for 
>>alpha arch.
>>In rest everything else is fedora specific changes between FC2-->FC3.
>>
>>
>> We release this under the version "1.0a" and plan that "1.0" version will 
>> be
>>marked only on the final iso images.
>>
>> The iso images will be based exact on that curent tree, unless someone 
>> discover
>>something showstopper thing to fix, and will try in a mather of 2 weeks to 
>>pack it.
>>
>>So, the path to AlphaCore 1.0a tree:
>>ftp://ftp.rdsor.ro/pub/Linux/Distributions/AlphaLinux/core/1.0a/
>>
>>And olso there is a yum config file wich point to this tree:
>>ftp://ftp.rdsor.ro/pub/Linux/Distributions/AlphaLinux/core/yum.conf-1.0a
>>
>> Mirrors are welcome, testers and volunteers are welcome, any feedback 
>> suggestions are accounted
>>in the final iso pack.
>>
>>
>>Thank you all,
>>~cristian
>>
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