The purpose of these pages is to assist developers and others interested with the ongoing project to port the Debian distribution of Linux to the Alpha family of processors. The Alpha family excels in floating point operations, hence its large deployment in the scientific computing and mathematical research fields.
Most types of Alphas are supported by the Debian Alpha port; the installation manual describes how to install and the release notes describe how to upgrade a Debian Alpha system.
Despite the fact that the Alpha processor development ceased in 2004, with the proper support from the Linux community, the Alpha port will never disappear. Here's the current port status. Alpha users might also be interested in these useful resources.
If you'd like to join us in this project, please peruse this page and join the mailing list. Things can be fast-moving and we all realise that not everyone has the technical expertise to do it all, but any help that people can or want to offer would be gladly accepted.
Cheers and happy Alpha-ing!
Helge Kreutzmann (former maintainer of these webpages),
Chris Chimelis (original maintainer of these webpages)
