===== Community =====

The mailing lists, IRC channels, and forums where Alpha/Linux users and developers meet today. Each distribution's own lists and channels are also described under [[:distributions|Distributions]], and the lists and newsgroups of the past under [[history:community|Community History]].

==== Mailing lists ====

The Alpha/Linux kernel mailing list is **linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org**, hosted at [[https://subspace.kernel.org/vger.kernel.org.html|vger.kernel.org]]. It is also the place for general questions about Linux on Alpha. A question is easier to answer when it gives the system model, the distribution and kernel version, and the output of the SRM ''show config'' command or the kernel log; see [[documentation:kernel#reporting_bugs|Kernel: Reporting bugs]].

  * **Subscribe:** send an email to **linux-alpha+subscribe@vger.kernel.org**; the subject and body are ignored.
  * **Daily digest:** subscribe with **linux-alpha+subscribe-digest@vger.kernel.org** instead.
  * **Unsubscribe:** send an email to **linux-alpha+unsubscribe@vger.kernel.org**.
  * **NNTP:** the list can be read at **nntp://nntp.lore.kernel.org**.
  * **Archives:** [[https://lore.kernel.org/linux-alpha/|lore.kernel.org]], from April 2002, and [[https://marc.info/?l=linux-alpha|marc.info]], from May 1998.

Gentoo and Debian each have an Alpha mailing list: [[https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-alpha/|gentoo-alpha]] and [[https://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/|debian-alpha]].

The [[https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-alpha/|NetBSD Alpha]] and [[http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-alpha|OpenBSD Alpha]] mailing lists also carry Alpha hardware and porting information.

The lists that carried most of the port's history, among them Red Hat's **axp-list** and the lists hosted on alphalinux.org, are gone, as are the Alpha newsgroups. Their archives are described in [[history:community|Community History]].

==== IRC ====

General Alpha discussion takes place in **#alpha** on [[https://libera.chat/|Libera.Chat]], and Gentoo's Alpha port uses **#gentoo-alpha** on the same network.

==== Forums ====

The [[https://github.com/alphalinux|alphalinux]] organization on GitHub hosts [[https://github.com/orgs/alphalinux/discussions|GitHub Discussions]] for questions, announcements, and general discussion of Linux on Alpha.

Gentoo has a [[https://forums.gentoo.org/viewforum.php?f=32|Gentoo on Alternative Architectures forum]].

==== Issue tracker ====

Known problems that affect Linux on Alpha across projects are tracked in [[https://github.com/alphalinux/issues/issues|alphalinux/issues]] on GitHub. How to report a bug is described under [[tasks:bugs|Bugs]].

The port's own tools, among them [[software:boot_loaders:aboot|aboot]] and [[software:boot_loaders:milo|MILO]], and the [[https://github.com/alphalinux/mailing-list-archives|mailing list archives]] cited throughout this wiki, are kept in the [[https://github.com/alphalinux|alphalinux]] organization on GitHub.

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