From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 13 19:44:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA03749 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 19:44:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA03656 for ; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 19:43:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) id MAA10339; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 12:37:07 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199807140237.MAA10339@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: alpha support In-Reply-To: from Dusk Auriel Sykotik at "Jul 13, 98 07:46:05 pm" To: syko@sykotik.org (Dusk Auriel Sykotik) Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 12:37:07 +1000 (EST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dusk Auriel Sykotik wrote: > I was wondering if -CURRENT supported the alpha platform, and if not when Not quite. It is still a work in progress - with people actively working on it in what ever spare time they have. > does it expect to be supported? Right now the only options presented to > me for alphas are redhat linux (ugh) and digiunix (too much money). I NetBSD/Alpha supports a wide range of alpha systems (but very few graphics cards). > would prefer to run FreeBSD, since its running on the other server now, > and its run very well for me, and I've really enjoyed working with it. Depending on what you want to do with your system, it is possible to build much of FreeBSD's user land on alpha right now from the same sources as the i386 -current. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message