From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 10 17:50:33 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 34E3016A4CF for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 17:50:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from lakemtao02.cox.net (lakemtao02.cox.net [68.1.17.243]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7766A43D38 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 17:50:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eqe@cox.net) Received: from merlin ([68.110.209.157]) by lakemtao02.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20031211015022.UKIH2297.lakemtao02.cox.net@merlin>; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 20:50:22 -0500 From: eqe@cox.net Organization: Dark Ronin To: Kenneth Culver Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 20:51:36 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200312092243.02269.eqe@cox.net> <1071030635.14355.7.camel@merlin> <20031210111222.k44gcgkgkoskcwkw@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> In-Reply-To: <20031210111222.k44gcgkgkoskcwkw@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200312102051.36194.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 01:50:33 -0000 On Wednesday 10 December 2003 11:12, you wrote: > Quoting Eriq Lamar : > > On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 22:53, David O'Brien 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. Yes people still use it but for them there is 4.9 > > > > which works fine. You could better serve the freebsd community by > > > > focusing on the future of computing like amd64, great dual support, > > > > better drivers, etc. and most people know this, so why not let alpha > > > > die. I personally like alpha but it has no future. > > > > > > What is the purpose of this email?!? > > > > 1. why not read the message body I think I explained it in plain > > english. > > > > > So what's your point? > > > > 2. for my point read 1. > > Sending mail like this is pretty much flamebait. Alpha is not dead, and > last I heard whoever owns rights to it this week is still releasing new > hardware, although they aren't hyping it at all. > > Ken sorry it was my impression that their would be no further versions of alpha and or at least it's growth is suspect. But I will reseach this now. and again this email was just a thought about improving freebsd as a whole nothing more I just found it strange that in 5.2 there would be so much backward compatability and could not help but wonder for what purpose I would never build a new server with a 386,486,or 586 for that matter.