01.12.1998
Kernel 2.1.129 seems to compile and run fine after applying a patch by Jay Estabrook. The patch is scheduled to be included in 2.1.130 but I did not yet check this. The patch came through on the axp-mailing-list and can be downloaded here. Remove the mail header from this patch before trying to apply it!

8.12.1998
Kernel 2.1.131 seems to run fine and no patch is needed (tested on SX164).

01.04.1999
Kernels 2.2.* (up to 2.2.5) seem to have problems with SCSI cdrom driver compiled as module. This casues immediate kernel panic at insmod. Solve: Compile the CDROM driver into the kernel.
Apart from this 2.2.* seem to run fine.

01.12.1998
A new version of a fast mathlib replacement library has been released as libffm.0.28.tar.gz. You can download it from our ftp server or from the original site at http://people.frankfurt.netsurf.de/Joachim.Wesner/libffm.0.28.tar.gz.

01.04.1999
Compaq has released a more or less free fast math library for Linux-Alpha. It is free in the sense that everyone can use it but they did not release the source. For more information have a look at http://www.unix.digital.com/linux/cpml.htm The library is more portable than libffm and also slightly faster.

August 1999
The lastest kernel 2.2.12 finally fixes the problems with process faults and threads on 164SX systems!

05.08.1999
Compaq has released Compaq's C compiler for Alpha Linux along with their fast portable math library and debugger (ladebug)! See on their website at http://www.unix.digital.com/linux/software.htm.