From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 10 17:36:35 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53D9316A4CE for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 17:36:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from lakemtao04.cox.net (lakemtao04.cox.net [68.1.17.241]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27C1943D2B for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 17:36:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eqe@cox.net) Received: from merlin ([68.110.209.157]) by lakemtao04.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20031211013631.YCPB19895.lakemtao04.cox.net@merlin>; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 20:36:31 -0500 From: eqe@cox.net Organization: Dark Ronin To: kientzle@acm.org Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 20:37:42 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200312092243.02269.eqe@cox.net> <200312100454.13107.eqe@cox.net> <3FD79801.7090605@acm.org> In-Reply-To: <3FD79801.7090605@acm.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200312102037.42947.eqe@cox.net> cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why support alpha?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 01:36:35 -0000 On Wednesday 10 December 2003 17:02, you wrote: > On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 10:43:02PM -0500, eqe@cox.net wrote: > >Isn't alpha dead? Why bother supporting them in 5.2 it seems like wasted > >energy. ... You could better serve the freebsd community by focusing on > > the future of computing .... > > This is a volunteer effort. > > People support FreeBSD-Alpha because they want to. > > Please don't piss off hardworking volunteers by telling > them that their efforts aren't appreciated. Messages > like this hurt the entire project. > > Tim Kientzle It was not my intent to piss off anyone but the truth is freebsd needs to seriously think about it's goals. I just thought if all the people dev. for alpha started dev. for i686 and amd64 then the project would be stronger for it. The alpha guys are valuable no question and again it was not my intent to piss on them. I just don't have an alpha (I wish I did, but I don't) and so I am only thinking about I686 or amd64.