[ILUG] Linux and Alpha 100

[Patrick Dempster]

You can get it from John Winters at the Linux emporium. It usually arrives
within a day or two.

http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk






>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Patton, Tony [mailto:Tony.Patton at NWIFHE.AC.UK]
>  Sent: 16 November 1999 16:17
>  To: 'Irish Linux Users Group'
>  Subject: [ILUG] Linux and Alpha 100
>  
>  
>  Has anyone have experience of installing Linux on an Alpha 
>  1000 4/233?  At
>  work the Alpha 1000 was replaced with an Alpha 800 w/ Compaq 
>  TruUnix64
>  running accounts and administration via Oracle 7.3.4.  What 
>  we would like to
>  do is to install linux on the Alpha 1000 and then transfer 
>  the accounts
>  package to it as a) Unix on the 1000 is not y2k compliant, 
>  and b) it will
>  ease the workload of the 800.
>  
>  Here are a few questions!
>  
>  1.	Is it easy/difficult to install linux on the server?
>  2.	Will Oracle for Unix run on the Linux box?
>  3.	Is it worthwhile doing the above?
>  
>  Also it would be appreciated if anyone could give me details 
>  of where to
>  obtain Alpha linux locally.
>  
>  Thanks
>  Tony Patton, North West Institute of Further & Higher 
>  Education, Derry
>  
>  Good programmers don't die,
>  The just GOSUB without RETURN.
>  
>  
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