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From: Gheorghe Ardelean <ardelean@ww.uni-erlangen.de>
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Subject: Re: future for FBSD on alpha
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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.