From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Jan 6 16:20:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA11411 for alpha-outgoing; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 16:20:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA11399 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 16:20:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA04890; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 16:19:37 -0800 (PST) To: John Birrell cc: jim.king@mail.sstar.com, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha port.. In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 07 Jan 1998 07:23:13 +1100." <199801062023.HAA09855@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> Date: Tue, 06 Jan 1998 16:19:37 -0800 Message-ID: <4886.884132377@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Sorry, but I *still* don't see what this achieves other than further > fragmenting an already low user-base. I've said in the past that I'd I don't think that any of the other *BSD/ALPHA releases would be as approachable as ours, however - have you ever tried to install NetBSD/ALPHA, for example? :-) It's definitely an exercise for the more skilled engineer, and I think that taking the ALPHA market away from NT, Digital Unix and even to a small extent Linux/ALPHA is going to take a far more concerted effort than anyone in the *BSD camp has, IMHO, exerted so far. Now if you wanted to ask the question of whether or not the FreeBSD project was capable of exerting that necessary degree effort itself, well, that would indeed be a very good question. :-) Jordan