(Recipient list is getting a bit unwieldy. That's not necessarily a bad thing :-). Delighted to see all the interest in Alpha, even if it took "the community" a while to wake up.)
Agreed that Steve Langasek is a logical/necessary person to contact if this revival has a chance of succeeding. As far as what I can bring to the table, I won't be able to test OS installers unless my system has a meltdown making a complete reinstall necessary: my Alpha is part of my operational infrastructure. On the other hand, I *have* committed to running "sid" since that's the only way I've been able to stay reasonably current: I tend to encounter problems early :-). I can test the basic sanity of alpha-specific kernels, but usually run a kernel built from the kernel.org release candidate source tree to avoid potential problems with "initrd". I'm familiar enough with the Debian package building process to roll my own when things break badly enough to require the effort: at various times over the past 2-3 years I've had to build custom versions of large chunks of X11, firefox, udevd, aboot, and glibc. The PWS 433au is definitely *not* a fire-breather by modern standards, i.e., firefox builds take on the order of eight hours, so while I can test the build process for various packages, my machine is not a good candidate for builds requiring quick turnaround. Respectfully, --Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
