From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 14 1:25:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8794137BDE9 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 01:25:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@foo.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from foo.osd.bsdi.com (root@foo.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.137]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA01597; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 01:25:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@foo.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by foo.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA10995; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 01:25:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <000801bf460a$d3c9d3a0$47cb0c18@clmba1.mo.home.com> Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 01:25:08 -0700 (PDT) Organization: BSD, Inc. From: John Baldwin To: Ralph Subject: RE: where is all the Alpha info Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 14-Dec-99 Ralph wrote: > whats the deal with only covering the i386 stuff ? > even the installation directions are completely > silent regarding the alpha platform. I'm used to > us getting less coverage but this seems a bit > excessive. The only info I can find on the website > is a reference to an "alpha" page that basically > says "yep, we have an alpha version" which strikes > me as a bit useless. maybe I should ask this: > what is the actual status of the alpha version? > why are references made to all the features > FreeBSD has, but there is never any indication which > platform the features exist on? like i386 emulation, > linux & dos binaries etc. If the alpha port is dead > then say so, if its alive then provide info on it. The Alpha port is far from dead. Rather, as usual, the documentation and web site tend to be a bit behind the actual codebase. BSDi (formerly WC) sell an entire extra CD set with alpha bits, including packages and a bootable CD, on them as FreeBSD/AXP. Also, while it isn't very high traffic, there is a freebsd-alpha list that you can get help from. As far as compatiblity, we don't sport any i386 emulation at the moment, but we can run OSF/1 binaries, and soon we will be able to run Linux/alpha binaries. > any info/help would be appreciated, > -Ralph -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message