Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 16:39:59 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Mike <mike@seidata.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, "Henry M. Pierce" <hmpierce@santorini.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD for the Sparc Message-ID: <199807292339.QAA01537@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 29 Jul 1998 19:36:15 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.01.9807291925450.21084-100000@ns1.seidata.com>
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> 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. This is what the mailing list archives are for. I just noticed that the Sparc port FAQ still doesn't mention this; I guess it should. > > 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'? I'm suggesting that if you want a BSD system that will work well on your old Sparc hardware, NetBSD is what you want. > Are you trying to be sarcastic? Not much is clear other than the fact > that you need to calm down... ?! I think you're reading far too much into my response. > 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. Please don't put words into my mouth. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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