From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 31 22:10:29 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2685A106564A for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:10:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirg.bris.ac.uk (dirg.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5D678FC13 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:10:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from isis.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.63]) by dirg.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KOgLh-00041J-Ff for freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:10:28 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.187.238]) by isis.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KOgLg-0000Yd-TY for freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:10:17 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost.men.bris.ac.uk [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m6VMAGXc035337 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:10:16 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m6VMAFBq035336 for freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:10:15 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk: mexas set sender to mexas@bristol.ac.uk using -f Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:10:15 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080731221015.GA35293@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Spam-Score: -1.4 X-Spam-Level: - Subject: future for FBSD on alpha X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:10:29 -0000 I wonder how many people run FBSD on alpha. According to bsdstats.org very few - less than 5 boxes. There must be more. Is there a way to find out how many people are on this list? Is it a good indicator? I, for one, am very keen to have some level of support for FBSD on alpha, even at 6-stable branch. However, if the actual usage is indeed very small, it must be expected that ports maintainers will stop supporting alpha soon. I'm trying to find out if there are people on this list, who, like myself, are keen to see FBSD supported on alpha for say 1-3 more years. If yes, we might be able to lobby ports maintainers not to drop support for alpha ports. I'm thinking at the moment about gcc42, firefox3, lapack, lapack95, blas. many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423