[NTLUG:Discuss] Alphaserver 2100

[Zac Brown]

Collin,
	Like the others mentioned, I'd probably run FreeBSD or NetBSD on it
(FreeBSD for me). Though I did take a look and redhat still has has the
7.2 ISO's for it and all. I *think* they still support it, but I'm not
positive. You can always run Debian as well, though it wouldn't be my
choice. You could put that thing to use doing some good math
calculations... like the distributed Mersenne prime project which can
always use some 64 bit quad processing machines with good floating point
:). Here's a link to that project, http://www.mersenne.org/, hope it
helps.

Zac

On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 12:21, comcast wrote:
> Hey,
> I just purchased a Compaq Alphaserver 2100 and was wondering if anybody has
> any experience with these, or basically... any advice as to what to do with
> it.  From what I've gathered it's a 4 processor DEC Alpha based system with
> 275MHz CPU's.  I've some some various reports of running Redhat 7.1/2 on
> these machines, but the majority of OS's that are reported as running are
> Digital Unix, Tru64 Unix. FreeBSD and OpenVMS.  I've never owned a server
> before and any advice or knowledge that anybody has would be greatly
> appreciated.
> Thanks in advance,
> Collin.=
> 
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