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Date:      Tue, 14 Jul 1998 22:04:24 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        "Matthew R. Briggs" <mbriggs@switchboard.net>
Cc:        Dusk Auriel Sykotik <syko@sykotik.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: alpha support
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980714220216.342K-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <35AB9D1B.E62A84C2@switchboard.net>

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On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Matthew R. Briggs wrote:

> [forwarded to freebsd-alpha as well as current]
> 
> Dusk Auriel Sykotik wrote:
> > 
> > I was wondering if -CURRENT supported the alpha platform, and if not when
> > 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
> > 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.
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > /*
> >  *   Matt Harris                   +++   Syko
> >  *   BPSOFH, BIOFH, C, SQL, PERL   +++   http://starix.technonet.net/~syko/
> >  *   FreeBSD SysAdmin              +++   apocalypse.sykotik.org
> >  */
> > 
> 
> Hello,
> 	I'd be interested to know this as well.  I just bought an AS200 from
> Onsale, and finally got OpenBSD running on it after fighting with Debian
> Linux for three days (I hate the ARC console...arrgh).  I like FreeBSD
> better, though.  How is the port coming along, and what can be done to
> help?

The port is coming on slowly.  I'm not really ready for people to try and
use it yet though (unless they want to help out on debugging the kernel
:-). 

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
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