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From:           	Richard Loken <richardlo@admin.athabascau.ca>
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Subject:        	Re: Mailing list freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org is being retired

> On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> > All of the PRs assigned to freebsd-alpha@ have been closed or redirected, so
> > it should be safe to turn off the list w/o orphaning any PRs.
> 
> I loaded VMS on my Alpha boxes when the FreeBSD community lost interest in
> Alpha.  There is still some activity in the VMS Alpha community and the OS
> works better.
> 
The OpenBSD developers still generate an Alpha build with each release.  
Their latest Release 4.8 builds on both my AlphaStation 255 and my DS10.  My 
AlphaServer 2100 has hardware issues and won't boot, so can't test OpenBSD.

Tom
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