Well, and may I add the hope that they might contract for an Alpha version of Red Hat 8.0?

Should that come to pass, may I also report that the Speakup screen reader works wonderfully for me on my AS200, despite the absence of any video
hardware. Speakup is perfectly happy with the dummy Linux video driver. I have this compiled with the 2.4.20 kernel released last week.

Mike A. Harris writes:
> From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharrisredhat.com>
>
> On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Maurice Hilarius wrote:
>
> >Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 12:58:56 -0700
> >From: Maurice Hilarius <mauriceharddata.com>
> >To: axp-listredhat.com
> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
> >List-Id: Linux and Red Hat on Alpha processors <axp-list.redhat.com>
> >Subject: Re: distribution
> >
> >With regards to your message at 08:04 PM 11/11/02, George France. Where you
> >stated:
> >>I do not know about better, but what about RH 7.2 for Alpha?
> >>
> >>--George
> >
> >
> >Good, but, of course, not really Red Hat, as in you have to buy or download
> >it from HP.
>
> Yes, it really is Red Hat Linux, as advertised on the box. It is
> just not sold by Red Hat or downloadable from Red Hat. It was a
> product produced under contract to HP/Compaq, and they handle all
> distribution of that product, and support. You can purchase it
> from their website, or you can download it for free from their
> ftpsite:
>
> ftp://alpha.crl.dec.com/pub/linux/redhat/7.2-alpha
>
> >Maybe this sounds nit-picky, but if you go to the RH site to
> >find it you will not see it there..
>
> Correct, because this was a product produced specifically for
> HP/Compaq under contract, and they are handling all distribution
> and support of it including erratum.
>
> It is however authentic Red Hat Linux, and was developed at Red
> Hat by Red Hat. I hope this helps clarify that it is really Red
> Hat Linux, and not a clone or offshoot developed by a third
> party.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
> --
> Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
> OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat
>
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