From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Mar 1 9:53:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from castle.huebner.org (amdiv.de [195.126.47.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD61D154A4 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 09:53:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hans@Huebner.ORG) Received: from castle.huebner.org ([192.168.2.1]) by castle.huebner.org with smtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 10HWsD-0002O7-00; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 18:52:58 +0100 Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 18:52:57 +0100 (CET) From: Hans Huebner To: Frank Louwers Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Project Status In-Reply-To: <19990301160647.A24091@zeuswpi.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Filtered-By: exim Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Frank Louwers wrote: > I know this is not the place to ask, but the webpages didn't help me either! > How good is freebsd/alpha? Is it stable? > Do "normal" UNIX apps (like apache, tcsh, sendmail, screen, WindowMaker) > compile without messing with the source? I have not tried WM, but I have successfully made a world on my AXPpci with apache, tcsh, sendmail, screen and KDE-1.1. Everything worked like it works on PC's, nothing special. The only bad thing is that there is no egcs-port for FreeBSD/alpha yet. This will propably change. The machine is stable (running rc5days since 20 days) and did not show any abnomalies. Go for it if you feel like abandoning Intels 8) -Hans To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message