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Date:      Fri, 1 Aug 2008 02:06:44 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Gheorghe Ardelean <ardelean@ww.uni-erlangen.de>
To:        Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: future for FBSD on alpha
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.33.0808010200470.31933-100000@servww6.ww.uni-erlangen.de>
In-Reply-To: <20080731221015.GA35293@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk>

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Hi,

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:

> I wonder how many people run FBSD on alpha.
> According to bsdstats.org very few - less than 5 boxes.
> There must be more.

Yes, there are more. I have 5 running 6.3 Release (AlphaPC64, AlphaPC164,
2x AXPpci33 w/custom kernel, PWS 433au).

> I'm trying to find out if there are people on this list, who,
> like myself, are keen to see FBSD supported on alpha
> for say 1-3 more years. If yes, we might be able to lobby
> ports maintainers not to drop support for alpha ports.

Having us testing will help the port maintainers a lot.

Best regards,

Gheorghe Ardelean.




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