From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 29 16:43:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA02680 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 16:43:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA02649 for ; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 16:42:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA01537; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 16:39:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807292339.QAA01537@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Mike cc: Mike Smith , "Henry M. Pierce" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD for the Sparc In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 29 Jul 1998 19:36:15 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 16:39:59 -0700 From: Mike Smith 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. 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