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Neil Williams wrote: > On 03/11/06 19:34:00, Rob Beard wrote: >> One of the places I used to work - The John Innes Centre >> (www.jic.bbrsc.ac.uk) they were using DEC Alpha boxes when I started >> but as Linux gained market share they saw the benefits of moving over >> to Linux (RedHat 7, 8 and 9 at the time). I wouldn't be surprised if >> the majority of the Alpha boxes have been replaced with Intel/AMD >> based workstations. > > Debian retains support for Alpha. If there are boxes going spare, they > would make great GNU/Linux machines. > Not sure what they did with them. IIRC one of my ex-colleagues got at least one Alpha and did exactly that - installed Debian on it. I managed to get two Sparc workstations from them, one I installed Solaris on, the other Red Hat 6. In the end though due to a nagging wife at the time and lack of space I took them back. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html