linux on a alpha

[Richard Meeker]

A 175 MHz Alpha processor is nothing to sneeze at.  That is probably every
bit as fast as a P2 350.  If you can get linux to run on that machine, then
it should make a very nice addition to your network cluster.

Rick Meeker

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-kclug at illiana.net [mailto:owner-kclug at illiana.net]On Behalf
Of Leonard Thomas
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 3:54 PM
To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: Re: kclug - linux on a alpha

Tony Hammitt wrote:
>
> It depends on the architecture of the machine.  If it uses a TurboChannel
> bus, your best bet is NetBSD.  If it's a PCI bus, Linux may work.  Is this
> a 3000/300, or just a 300X?  What color is it?
>

It's a 3000/300  - Beige/green color scheme if I recall correctly.  It
is older and only has the 175 MHz chip in it, though I was not looking
at it for pure number crunching.

> You will, of course, have to check out:
>
> comp.os.linux.alpha
> http://www.alphalinux.org
> http://www.support.compaq.com/alpha-tools/index.html
> http://www.redhat.com/support/hardware/alpha/6.2/index.html

>From  what I gathered from above it appears the some flavor of BSD might
work, since its the turbochannel architecture, not PCI.

So since I don't have all that much time to waste on it I will probably
pass on the system.

 Len Thomas

>
> I have RH6.2 images downloaded already, plus the current Compaq compiler
> set (but you should register and download that yourself, just to increase
> their hit count)
>
> Feel free to contact me off-group.  I'm the resident Alpha dude.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tony Hammitt
>
> "Thomas, Leonard" wrote:
> >
> > I have the oppurtunity to get an old DEC Alpha 300X workstation.  It
currently
> > is running VMS, but I would like to convert it over to Linux if
possible.
> > We have been toying with the idea of a Linux cluster here and I thought
> > this might be a reasonable machine to put in the cluster.  It also has a
nice
> > big
> > monitor that would be nice for some of our other applications.
> > My question is is it feasible to install Linux on this machine and if so
> > is it worth it.  The price of the machine is free.
> >
> > Len Thomas
> >
>

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