On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Steve B. wrote:
The Red Hat folks came out to Internet World in Los Angeles and visited assorted Linux Users Groups. They said support for non-Intel platforms is as much as dead. Not enough of a market to make it worth the development expense. I Well I dont use redhat anyway, and my need for a Alpha version makes my opinion more strong due to their latest statements. I was going to use redhat linux on a alpha based system, however they are starting to tread very thin ice with me...their commercial interests outweigh their versatility, its time to can redhat and find a more flexible distributor.
also found it odd that in discussing the upcoming versions and install/config features they kept saying "Windows 98 is going to...." Appears the commercial world blues are hitting Linux well at least Red Hat.
With the sucky operational ability of redhat, suse and slackware tend to get my vote depending on the task at hand...I know they dont do alpha either but at least they have not taken a stand against the possibility of it -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e