I don't know if it's true that this is the only KDE 3 NetBSD-Alpha box, but I 
thought I'd forward this.  Today marks the first time I've been able to use 
KDE > 1.0 as a production environment on Alpha...  Sure, it's bloated:  but it 
is a great benchmark for robust systems.  (Note this is KDE 3.0 from pkgsrc).

--Dave

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: alpha <--> x86 desktop parity
Date: 18 Feb 2003 09:38:12 -0500
From: mel kravitz <melk@switchpwr.com>
To: David Hopper <dhop@nwlink.com>
References: <3E5241CE.5080305@nwlink.com>

Hi Dave,
Really Cool!!! your desktop will be up at caseydoodle.com shortly.
You *must* have the only KDE box [running NetBSD] on alpha on the
planet.
True alpha<->x86 parity, Let the alpha-port list know that kde3! is now
compiling and running on <BWX> PC like alpha's.
Best -Mel


On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 09:23, David Hopper wrote:
> Hi Mel,
> 
> I thought you might like a screenshot this morning.  Thanks to Jason Thorpe 
> and Charles Hannum's ld_elf.so changes late last year to the new pthreads to 
> the modified 4.2.1 codebase, this is the first time since KDE 1.0 that I've 
> seen any KDE from pkgsrc run on Alpha in a stable fashion.  The speed is 
> snappy indeed.  (Still no Mozilla browsers, though-- although Konqueror runs 
> fine).
> 
> No matter what your feelings toward KDE are, it's pretty significant when this 
> sucker runs well on NetBSD-Alpha.  It takes the better part of a week to 
> compile it and all its dependencies on this 600MHz Alpha (it's still going!).
> 
> --Dave
>