Re: [announce] SuSE Linux 8.1 Alpha Edition available.

This is great! I was beginning to look at what other distributions where
more current on the Alpha. I'm happy to stick with SuSE.

thank you,
andy

>>> Stefan Reinauer <[email protected]> 05/13/2003 09:09:51 >>>
Dear Alpha community,

it's been quite some spare time nights that the old SuSE Alpha Team
spent to present you a new version of SuSE Linux for Alpha machines.

To safe more greasy words: It's available for download from 
      ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/supplementary/8.1/ 

There are quite a couple of reasons to update now, among them are:

 * kernel 2.4.19
 * gcc 3.2.2, glibc 2.2.5, binutils 2.12.90.0.15
 * apache2, bind8/9, ..
 * kde 3.0.4
 * ...
 
SuSE Linux 8.1 Alpha Edition has been tested on several EV56/EV6/EV67
machines, but it might also work on newer/older Alpha systems. 

To install SuSE Linux 8.1 Alpha Edition on SRM systems, you need to
download the installation iso, and burn it to a CD. Find the ISO at  
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/supplementary/8.1/boot/boot.iso 
Then you can start installation with "boot dkb0 -fl 0". Please make 
sure to insert your cdrom device instead of dkb0. For interactive 
startup you can use the "-fl i" instead of "-fl 0"
Installation on Milo systems is a little bit more work. Find a short
description and the milo images at
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/supplementary/8.1/milo/ 

Please note: SuSE Linux 8.1 Alpha Edition comes with absolutely no
warranty and support whatsoever. We can not provide iso images of the
complete distribution at the moment, but ftp installation works fine
here and should be viable once the distribution arrived on all
mirrors.

Feel free to send bug reports, or hints to the SuSE AXP mailing list 
[email protected]. 

Best regards,
  Stefan Reinauer
  
-- 
Architecture Team
    SuSE Linux AG