Next release of AlphaCore? JUST DO IT

[Sergey Tikhonov]

Hello everyone,

Michael Kronsteiner wrote:

>I would like to know too, because alphacore was more for
>gamers/techies/multimediafreaks. CentOS just missed some libraries, but
>thats what you have to expect from an OS for business (its more or less
>RHEL...)
>.. and i just bought a voodoo card for my sx164...
>
>So to say, im somewhat experienced with kernel compiling and configuring
>(which seemed to be an issue for ac2.0), but im very very limited in
>hardware (2x sx164, 1xas1000, 1xas2000, various flavours of dec 3000´s ...
>[no bragging if you want one mail me])
>
>My personal thought is the alphacore developers are now working with
>centos... dont cry, as some famous sports-shoes maker said 
>
>"JUST DO IT"
>  
>
Just to have everyone to know. AC2 is almost ready (in fact it was ready 
in December), but we tried to
make SMP kernel to work. Unfortunately, only Jay Estabrook has access to 
SMP machines, but didn't
have much time. :( So, we decided to release AC2 with UP kernel, fix SMP 
later.
Cristian has been very busy lately and didn't have to make final isos. 
So, I decided to cook them myself
and upload to his ftp site (I might still have a problem, since he is 
not around and there no much space left
on ftp server :( ). There will be disk1 and disk4 uploaded soon, just 
enough to make minimal install. Other
disks will be uploaded later (it take time :) ).

Hope these are good news for you. :)

PS. FC5 tree is almost built too (at least I am running it). Java works.
One big addition in FC5 is mono project (C#) and all related packages. 
Unfortunatelly, mono has partial support of Alpha
(interpreter works, but it is very old and unsupported). I am trying to 
add support of Alpha to their JIT (very interesting
work), but it would take some time too. The devel tree is regulary 
updated with newly compiled packages (so you are welcome
to try them :) ).

Regards,
Sergey.
tsv at solvo.ru