From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 29 16:35:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA01076 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 16:35:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.seidata.com (ns1.seidata.com [208.10.211.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA00981 for ; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 16:34:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@seidata.com) Received: from localhost (mike@localhost) by ns1.seidata.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA22942; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 19:36:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 19:36:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike To: Mike Smith cc: "Henry M. Pierce" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD for the Sparc In-Reply-To: <199807281609.JAA03485@antipodes.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > People, the Sparc port is _dead_ (Sun pulled the plug a while back). Thanks for the info... all of us aren't as enlightened as yourself. Now we know. > At no time was there going to be support for geriatric hardware. If > you want to run a real operating system, the NetBSD folks cater to just > that sort of nostalgia. Not sure *what* you mean by this satement. 'Real operating system'? Are you trying to be sarcastic? Not much is clear other than the fact that you need to calm down... This email list is "a forum for technical discussions related to FreeBSD. This is the primary technical mailing list. It is for individuals actively working on FreeBSD, to bring up problems or discuss alternative solutions. Individuals interested in following the technical discussion are also welcome. This is a technical mailing list for which strictly technical content is expected." --FreeBSD-Hackers List Charter Last I checked, asking about a Sparc port was fairly technical... and it was a FreeBSD port, so it did pertain to FreeBSD... simply saying the project was dead (thanks again) would have been sufficient - no need to bash any OS or get hostile. -mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message