From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Jul 14 14:02:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA14532 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 14:02:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA14523; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 14:02:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA04585; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 22:04:24 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 22:04:24 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: "Matthew R. Briggs" cc: Dusk Auriel Sykotik , current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: alpha support In-Reply-To: <35AB9D1B.E62A84C2@switchboard.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 :-). -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message