> 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!).
Wow... excellent! Glad to know that some people out there do real work on
these things :) All I ever do with them is build stuff over and over
again.
> 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.
I can vouch for the stability of all the components that I regularly use.
This includes the compilers and basic libraries, all the basic networking
utilities, vim, Perl, just about everything in the A series, and so forth.
I've also run X for extended periods of time, though its stability seems
to vary with your graphics hardware.
In conclusion, the base looks really stable to me. I haven't had any
crashes any time recently, despite doing all that compiling and package
building. Hopefully, other people can share some good experiences as
well. I personally think it's stabilized quite nicely, though I might be
a little biased.
I think it's stable enough that I will be able to call it "beta" at the
same time as the Intel tree goes beta.
> 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.
Yes, it's been a lot of fun so far. It's been in the works a lot longer
than it has been publically available, but much progress has been made
since it was dumped to the rsync and ftp sites. I'd also like to thank
everyone on the list for helping out... you've all tested out lots of
things that I never even would have thought to try.
--
Chris Lumens - chris@slackware.com - KG6CIH
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