Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 22:46:06 +0000 (UTC) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: future for FBSD on alpha Message-ID: <g703ne$28qq$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> References: <20080731221015.GA35293@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk>
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Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> wrote: > I wonder how many people run FBSD on alpha. I did, until last weekend, when a hard disk died. FreeBSD 5.5 on an AlphaPC164. That machine held my e-mail/news setup, which I've since moved over to an amd64. > if the actual usage is indeed very small, it must be expected > that ports maintainers will stop supporting alpha soon. Your average ports maintainer has never supported alpha beyond accepting patches if you sent them any. > I'm trying to find out if there are people on this list, who, > like myself, are keen to see FBSD supported on alpha > for say 1-3 more years. FreeBSD/alpha is effectively dead. It is vestigially "supported" (= not intentionally damaged) in the 6.x branch. Meanwhile, actual progress on FreeBSD is happening in 8.0-CURRENT. Asking for _somebody_ to support alpha isn't going to accomplish anything. Either invest the work yourself or shut up. The people carrying the weight in FreeBSD development essentially gave up on alpha years ago when (or before) 6.0 was branched. I won't bother reinstalling FreeBSD 6 on my alpha. I might put OpenBSD on it, but then I already have an alpha running OpenBSD. Actually, as far as there are operating systems that still support alpha and are likely to continue doing to, OpenBSD might be your best choice. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
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