From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 10 18:09:32 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 4E83016A4CE for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 18:09:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from lakemtao02.cox.net (lakemtao02.cox.net [68.1.17.243]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12EFF43D2C for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 18:09:30 -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 <20031211020927.UQVK2297.lakemtao02.cox.net@merlin>; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 21:09:27 -0500 From: eqe@cox.net Organization: Dark Ronin To: Scott Likens Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 21:10:42 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200312092243.02269.eqe@cox.net> <200312102037.42947.eqe@cox.net> <1071107664.16605.10.camel@desolation.livid.de> In-Reply-To: <1071107664.16605.10.camel@desolation.livid.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200312102110.42109.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 02:09:32 -0000 On Wednesday 10 December 2003 20:54, you wrote: > On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 17:37, eqe@cox.net wrote: > > 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. > > You're providing useless garbage. You haven't said anything helpful. > The really sad part is I imagine you don't contribute ANYTHING to > FreeBSD. > > Bug reports are something, so are patches, testing, commiting ports, > helping write documentation, man pages, etc. > > Alpha has layed the groundwork for AMD64, and Sparc64 and has tought > some valuable lessons to everyone who runs FreeBSD. > > This lesson is simple, we cannot forget the past if we are to goto the > future. > > Point simply, by dropping support for Alpha would be very harmful to > FreeBSD in many ways. It is growing, it's developing and helping us > learn what we need to do with other ports. > > So I can honestly say that Alpha is a great platform, it has maturity, > it has a 64bit architecture that we can grow with. > > Some people can ask the question why don't we drop i686 support since > it's so old and ancient. > > The point is, as long as there is people willing to maintain the Alpha > port, it will live. > > So, I hope that the Alpha port lives longer then you do. ok, and by saying the things you have said here you are doing something productive? I only made a suggestion nothing more nothing less why you take this so personally is beyond me but now I am done w/ this I have wasted enough time trying to explain myself to a narrow minded fool such as yourself.