Fwd: Alpha Wiki

[Rob B]

Just forwarding this on as part of the (dying) Alpha community....

cheers,
Rob

>From: "Mike Barnes" <mike at grouse.net.au>
>To: axp-list at redhat.com
>
>Since all the cool kids have a Wiki these days ...
>
>http://alphacore.info/wiki/
>
>I'm throwing this out as a last piece of thanks to the Alpha crew. I
>haven't switched on my DS10 for months, ever since I picked up an awfully
>cheap 64-bit Sempron system which I'm utterly astounded with,
>performance-wise, considering how much I paid for it.
>
>The big roaring blue box just doesn't have a place in my life right now. I
>guess I'm semi-retiring from Alpha development ... not that I've done much
>in the last year anyway; although I will keep the domain registered, and
>the sites up and hosted, by all means.
>
>The Wiki at least is a good solution to keep me from being solely
>responsible for doing updates in a timely manner. :)
>
>My initial goal is to pull most of the good stuff out of the spam-riddled
>Alpha Core Forums, and start from there. I'll put the entire thing under
>the GFDL so we can poach from Wikipedia's AXP info as a base, but we'll
>have the scope for things like giving each machine type its own article,
>which will never happen there.
>
>This isn't intended as an Alpha Core specific thing, either. Other OS
>pages are quite welcome.
>
>So, whether it lives and thrives, or just becomes another dusty and
>neglected site on the net, it's there. It's staying there. If anyone feels
>like playing, go for it.