[NTLUG:Discuss] Alphaserver 2100

[Burton M. Strauss III]

Basically a server is a high powered Desktop with lousy sound and video.

For normal use, they don't offer a lot of benefits - quad processors are
nice, but unless it's specially written to be parallel, remember that most
stuff you do won't use more than one cpu at a time.

The older proprietary OSes will cost $$$ and be fairly limited in what you
can find to run.

I don't know of any prepackaged Alpha Linuxes, but I'm probably wrong.
Google for them or scan this page:
http://www.distrowatch.org/dwres.php?resource=search

I would stay away from RH7 anything like the plague.  It's unsupported, you
are running on an uncommon cpu, etc.  Can you ask for more trouble???  Not
without working at it...

For a current OS, I think FreeBSD (or NetBSD - it runs on ANYTHING) may be
your best choice.

-----Burton





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> Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Alphaserver 2100
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> Hey,
> I just purchased a Compaq Alphaserver 2100 and was wondering if
> anybody has
> any experience with these, or basically... any advice as to what
> to do with
> it.  From what I've gathered it's a 4 processor DEC Alpha based
> system with
> 275MHz CPU's.  I've some some various reports of running Redhat 7.1/2 on
> these machines, but the majority of OS's that are reported as running are
> Digital Unix, Tru64 Unix. FreeBSD and OpenVMS.  I've never owned a server
> before and any advice or knowledge that anybody has would be greatly
> appreciated.
> Thanks in advance,
> Collin.=
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