AlphaCore 1.0 final release !

[Steven Moix - Axianet.ch]

This is great! It's already installed on my 164LX board and even my USB2 
controller (a noname ALI M5273 based card) works fine!
It's soooo sweet to have a recent distro on alpha :)

Steven

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Balint Cristian" <rezso at rdsor.ro>
To: <axp-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 9:48 PM
Subject: AlphaCore 1.0 final release !


> Salut !
>
> Proud to announce that me and Sergey, after a long hobby'sh development, 
> finaly released Alpha Core 1.0 aka "Svetlana" !
>
>   Svetlana is based on Fedora Core 3 release, it is a pure recompilation 
> over alpha of fedora project with additional pain to fix platform specific
> things to make it work. It olso already include latest fedora 3 updates.
>
> In short line, iso's can be grabbed from [4xCD]:
> ftp://ftp.rdsor.ro/pub/Linux/Distributions/AlphaLinux/core/1.0/iso
>
> The MD5SUM list:
>
> 073e9c4f1173bfefb9b2c21a34dbde96  svetlana-disk1.iso
> 5e7082d364f850706c281ec9ee17077b  svetlana-disk2.iso
> 50161c70f12fff7ca084f1d043242dd4  svetlana-disk3.iso
> d8b755a1330dfd77bb8e962595076bbe  svetlana-disk4.iso
>
>
> The main 1.0 yum-'ed repos can be found in this path:
> ftp://ftp.rdsor.ro/pub/Linux/Distributions/AlphaLinux/core/1.0/alpha
> The yum.conf for the online tree  can be found:
> ftp://ftp.rdsor.ro/pub/Linux/Distributions/AlphaLinux/core/yum.conf-1.0
>
> The old 1.0a tree was renumbered as 1.0 so you have to update you yum 
> paths.
>
> One of milestone we attained is that unlike in ac-0.9 glibc was fixed 
> properly so applications will run much more fine,
> the kernel is olso much carefully assambled and tested on various machine, 
> and the install disc contains the milo flavour too
> for those who's machine require it. We strongly based on released test 
> iso's as feedbacks wich was a very positive
> surprise of successfull reactions, thanks again to axp-list members who 
> tested it !
>
> After the install, the yum tool will contain the necessary paths to update 
> tree so we will maintain
> an update repository for this release. Olso i plan a extras tree for this 
> release where fedora-extras packs
> will be pushed.
>
> Becouse leak of more deep tests in real world, we reserves the fact that 
> if a trivial bug is discovered by
> anyone in the CD set we will try to rerelease this distro.
>
>
> As "hall of fame" want to thanks again to Jay from HP/Compaq for providing 
> us lists of machine reports
> and for its time for us. Thanks Jay !
> Olso thanks for every happy alpha owners out there on the list !
>
>
> As last words, we hope for an alphacore-2.0 release too, it will be based 
> on FC4, we try to put efforts to align this project
> to fedora itself so all patches is moved right now into fedora mainline 
> tree. Sergey is working to get gcc-4 and the build toolchain
> to work proper on alpha and i dream some native java stuff in future 
> alphacores like eg: eclipse and tomcat.
>
> For those who want to test even now the development tree we provide a yum 
> config file:
> ftp://ftp.rdsor.ro/pub/Linux/Distributions/AlphaLinux/core/yum.conf-devel
>
>
>
> Happy installs for everyone !
>
>
> ~cristian
>
> And again excuse me for any misstypes or horror lines,
> as latin native language writer.
>
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