From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 14 6:27:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from team7.cba.ualr.edu (team7.cba.ualr.edu [144.167.120.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBC6A37C8C5 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 06:27:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@team7.cba.ualr.edu) Received: (from joe@localhost) by team7.cba.ualr.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA31744; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 08:27:42 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joe) Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 08:27:42 -0500 From: Joe To: Ralph Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: where is all the Alpha info Message-ID: <20000714082742.A31707@team7.cba.ualr.edu> References: <000801bf460a$d3c9d3a0$47cb0c18@clmba1.mo.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <000801bf460a$d3c9d3a0$47cb0c18@clmba1.mo.home.com>; from redwinn@home.com on Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 02:11:29AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Take a look at: ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com/pub/FreeBSD/releases/alpha/4.0-RELEASE/HARDWARE.TXT ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com/pub/FreeBSD/releases/alpha/4.0-RELEASE/RELNOTES.TXT and et al. Enjoy! -Joe On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 02:11:29AM -0600, 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. > > any info/help would be appreciated, > -Ralph To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message