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OK - quite a lot of useful stuff here so far. I chose Debian for exactly this reason - it's the only one currently supporting Alpha AXP. Anyone else in the SW using Alpha h/w ??? I've spent a lot of time with user-abusive software, so I didn't find the install particularly daunting, its just that now I've arrived, I've got a big complex OS to learn and not much spare time. Thanks anyway... Alasdair C-S Channel View Exmouth -----Original Message----- From: David Johnson [mailto:dj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 22 October 2003 18:28 To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [LUG] Debian 3.0r1 on Alpha AXP - where now? On Wednesday 22 Oct 2003 18:19, Neil Williams wrote: > On Wednesday 22 Oct 2003 5:55 pm, Alasdair Cunningham-Smith wrote: > > OK - this is my first ever Linux install. > > Why Debian? Most people here (even those who promote Debian) wouldn't > usually advise using Debian as your first-ever install - there are other > distros out there which will take you through all these problems > interactively and get you straight into X. No other distros are currently available for Alpha (at least none of the 'easy' distros). The latest Redhat release is 7. Although there is an (unsupported) release of SuSE 8.1 for Alpha. David. -- My other .sig is funny. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.