I too had problems getting alliance 3.0 to run on a current linux. So over the weekend, I managed to get the system to compile. The few tests that I have made were passed. So I have made the system available at (for the moment): ftp://ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/users/adrian/alliance_3.0_linux_elf.tar.gz This contains the patched sources and shared ELF binaries. It seems to work on my Redhat 4.2. A E Lawrence