Chris & Slackware-Alpha Development Team,
I don't know if I have been missing anything becuase I have been really busy
with school. Now that the semester is almost over, I will be spending more
time focusing on my research. This research includes utilizing 8 Digital
Alpha 500au Workstations in a cluster for some Molecular Dynamics Research
(highly computational work. :) I am extremely excited that Slackware
finally has this alpha port, (especially since I have been following
throughout the entire development process, and also that I refuse to use any
other linux distribution!).
Is it fair to say from your previous statements that the alpha-slack is
close to being stable enough for a production release? Are there any major
bugs to the core utilities that I should be concerned with before I plan to
implement the slackware port in a production environment. I won't be using
X, but mainly just the core utilities that are common to all slackware
distributions. Along with a few other applications that have been written
by our research group :). Please let me know what you think so that I can
gear myself up to configure and install slackware on my cluster :) If I
have just missed some posts on this issue, please let me know.
And while I am on this soap box, I would like to thank all the people that
were envolved with the slackware port. It's really nice to see something
take shape and grow such as this port has in the past 7-8 months.
Mathew Lee
Graduate Research Assistant
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Oklahoma State University
ps. the following is a snippet from the a previous post:
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... But when I get back, I will probably have the whole alpha farm finished
and I will talk to somone about leaking the info about it so you guys can
brag. :) ... Hey, that would be cool! Any publicity that we can
generate for Slackware is a good thing... especially around release time.
<snip>
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