It looks to me as though they mean 'alpha' as in 'before beta' rather than as in 'better computer'. And that they're using the common definition of 'Linux' as 'Linux-x86'.
- Robert On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Laurent Jacques wrote: > On Friday 14 December 2001 05:29, Rob Byrnes wrote: > > For those who are interested > > > > The Winamp MP3 (and more) player has a preview release for Alpha Linux > > available at: > > > > http://www.winamp.com/download/wasabi/ > > It doesn't work for me. > Notice that it's a bit strange to call the executable Winamp.exe inside the > the linux archive (No, I don't save the windows version ;-) > > In fact, there is a shell script Winamp placed into /usr/local/bin and > calling the binary Winamp.exe in /usr/local/Winamp/Winamp.exe > > A direct execution of Winamp.exe gives: > bash: ./Winamp.exe: cannot execute binary file > > Any Idea ? > > Laurent.

