Rich Payne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Robert Martinovic wrote: > > > I've gotten to the point where I'm thinking of selling my Alpha. Why? > > > > * Mozilla doesn't compile (anything after M17) > > Really?...well I've been using the RPMs from RedHat (yes, I know it's not > the same as having a .deb, but for him to make these packages it > must compile) from http://people.redhat.com/blizzard/software/
I have been able to compile SOME of the nightly mozilla builds on potato, but not all. Hopefully something will be done about getting a better gcc for us or hopefully gcc 3.0 happens sometime in my life... > > * Support for Matrox Dual Head is so far non-existant > > Last I knew some of the Dual head code is dependant on a binary only > library from Matrox. How much time have you spent talking to Matrox asking > if they'll port this to Alpha? ah.. last time I checked (and tried) X did dual head on Alpha just fine with a pair of mill II's. > > * Kernel 2.4.1 DOES NOT WORK ON UP1000 using the Debian method - the other > > method I haven't tried > > >From what I've seen 2.4.1 still has some issues on i386, nevermind a > non-x86 arch. These things take time as it's a function of developer > resources. How much have you contributed towards the development of > 2.4? Also, what's the big rush for 2.4, which of it's features must you > have that 2.2 can't provide? I somehow doubt that 2.4 runs perfectly on > PPC,Sparc etc....as well. I can't speak to the debian packages as I'm > running 2.2 on my debian alpha box. I don't use nor recommend "the debian method" of making a kernel. Instead I use: make config make boot make modules make modules_install then all you have to do is copy the kernel image and System.map to /boot. > > * Do I need to keep going. > > Well if they are specific bugs in Debian then I'd say file them in the > Debian bug system. Yes, please do. > > This is not a whine from someone not prepared to help. > > It is a reflection on the situation we Alpha users, specifically Debian > > Alpha users have to deal with. No support apart from each other and no > > interest from anybody else. > > Who are you expecting to be interested? "No support apart from each > other"?? I thought that's what community support was all about. Are you > saying that you want a phone number to call, someone you can give your > credit card number to? I'm not trying to be difficult here, but I'm rather > confused by your comments. I'm guessing he meant companies releasing products for Alpha Linux. Some do, some don't. Applixware does (did?). > > Who here agrees? > > Not I, I've found the Debian (and Linux) communities to be quite good at > support. I don't agree, but agree with Rich. The few problems we have are usually dumb coding by people and can eventually be fixed. I don't work for redhat, suse, or one of the other commerical distros. I work for Debian and all my time is volunteer. If someone wanted to pay me to work full time on Alpha, I'd be most happy to do so! Ron
