[linux-help] Re: Alpha Server

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> One of the other people here mentioned software availability.  In
> general, the only software that will not run on the Alpha that may on
> x86 Linux is the non-free software that comes without source.  This
> would be things like Quake or StarOffice.  Everything that you get on
> a Debian CD set, for whatever architecture, is free software with
> source -- and with a few exceptions for architecture-specific packages
> like as86 -- it will all come with the Alpha CD set as well.

Don't forget gogo... the highly Intel/AMD-optimized MP3 encoder!  :-)


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