George Gallen on 12 May 2005 18:13:16 -0000


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RE: [PLUG] Free computer.


Title: RE: [PLUG] Free computer.

if you decide to go the NT route,

I have two diskettes from when we had our alpha 2100.
ECU diskette V1.11A DEC alpha for configuration of systems for NT
ECU diskette V1.8 DEC alpha for configuration of systems for NT

never used them, don't know if they work!

George

>-----Original Message-----
>From: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org
>[mailto:plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org]On Behalf Of Paul L. Snyder
>Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 1:54 PM
>To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List
>Subject: Re: [PLUG] Free computer.
>
>
>Quoting Cosmin Nicolaescu <cos@camelot.homelinux.com>:
>
>> On Thu, May 12, 2005 1:35 pm, sean finney said:
>> > On Thu, May12, 2005 at 12:00:09PM -0400, William H. Magill wrote:
>> >> FreeBSD runs much better on the Alphas than NetBSD. 
>FreeBSD Alpha is
>> >> still under active development, don't know about NetBSD.
>> >
>> > and there's always debian :)
>> >
>> >    sean
>>
>> don't forget gentoo ;)
>
>And don't forget...Windows NT.  I think I still have an NT-for-Alpha
>CD kicking around somewhere.
>
>Though it, er, isn't what you could call "under active development".
>
>On the plus side, most of the Windows exploits out there are
>x86-specific, so you would have what might be called security through
>perversity.
>
>pls
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