Alpha Core

An informative article on the history of the Alpha was recently mentioned on the NetBSD Alpha mailing list (and passed on to others). Worth a read.

In the interests of bumping up the "useful information" quotient of this site, I've started building a list of links to other operating systems for the Alpha.

Suggestions to this thread in the forums, please.

While all my Alphas are still in storage, I'm going to try making myself useful by maintaining a somewhat definitive compatibility list.

If you've had a success or a failure installing on a particular variant of an Alpha system, please make a post in the forum detailing how it went.

This will eventually lead to machine-specific pages on the site, and possibly the beginnings of an FAQ.

The discussion forum is now open. It's very minimal, but should be a decent enough place for anyone to get some questions answered.

Another good option is Red Hat's Alpha mailing list. All the developers hang out there, and many other good people too. It's worth joining up.

While the release of 1.0 has some people's attention, I'd like to get in a little plug for a site I'm trying to get started out. Practical Unix is an idea that's been kicking around in my head for a while (since 2001, according the the domain registration date) and it's now time to send it off into the world and see what happens.

I'd appreciate anyone dropping by with either questions or answers. It won't get anywhere without people. Thanks!

ISO images for Alpha Core version 1.0 are now available. See the download page for links.

MD5SUM list:
073e9c4f1173bfefb9b2c21a34dbde96 svetlana-disk1.iso
5e7082d364f850706c281ec9ee17077b svetlana-disk2.iso
50161c70f12fff7ca084f1d043242dd4 svetlana-disk3.iso
d8b755a1330dfd77bb8e962595076bbe svetlana-disk4.iso