From owner-freebsd-sparc Thu Nov 5 12:05:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA23633 for freebsd-sparc-outgoing; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 12:05:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fep02-svc.tin.it (mta02-acc.tin.it [212.216.176.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA23428 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 12:03:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paipai@box4.tin.it) Received: from winworkstation ([212.216.234.166]) by fep02-svc.tin.it (InterMail v4.0 201-221-105) with SMTP id <19981105200322.NSBM20712.fep02-svc@winworkstation> for ; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 21:03:22 +0100 Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Paolo Di Francesco" To: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 21:04:47 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: I am "new".... X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.53/R1) Message-Id: <19981105200322.NSBM20712.fep02-svc@winworkstation> Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ok, I've just subscribed to this mailing list. The main reason is "curiosity" I think and I'd want to know who is actively developing on this platform and why. Some questions: 1) Which will be the supported platforms? (the oldest ones?) I need to know this because I would help in some way, but I do not have a SPARC box at home. So I have to buy it, but this means "money" and I'm a student so not much "money".....8( 2) Current state. I think I have to learn many things if I want to be of some help.... But if you have done it, I think I shall do something else. 8) Why I want to "play" with kernels and the low-level part of a system? Well, you can learn many things, experimenting this kind of things. P.S. let me know what you think. Thanx Ciao Ciao Paolo Di Francesco _ ->B<- All Recycled Bytes Message ... ~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message