News

... interesting news.

Alpha Core has been quiet lately, but it's not for lack of activity behind the scenes. We have something important to announce; there will not be an Alpha Core 4.

Don't start crying yet, though.

Instead of Alpha Core 4, we hope that in a few months you'll join us in celebrating the release of Fedora 8 for Alpha. It's been a long time coming, and a lot of work has gone into the project, but it looks like the Alpha platform will be synchronised up with the mainstream releases of Fedora for the first time.

You can read more about what's going on with the Fedora Secondary Architectures proposal here, and we'll post more updates as they come in.

We could really use package builders and testers, and if you'd like to get on board and help out in any way, please get in touch with us, because the more people involved, the better.

In an attempt to decrease our reliance on these frequently spammer-targeted forums, I've set up a Wiki for the Alpha and/or Alpha Core.

There's absolutely nothing there yet, but I'd like to encourage anyone and everyone who knows of something useful that's in these forums to just paste it in to the Wiki somewhere.

Don't stress over formatting or "proper" presentation. We can figure that out later. For now, I think the important thing is to start getting some of the really good information about the Alpha that we've got into some well-defined and searchable place.

No, this isn't a new release, or a dodgy sequel. Just a note that the 2.0 release ISOs are being re-seeded, so there's a new BitTorrent link on the download page.

Thanks to Jeff Garzik for noticing the issue and sorting something out. The 1.0 and even the 0.9 releases are also on his mirror, if you're the curious and experimental type.

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!