Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 16:35:56 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: "Richard J. Valenta" <rjv@weblinkmo.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: future for FBSD on alpha Message-ID: <20080801153556.GA83312@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <8F8C8CFE62002A4EB82EE1CE9F2ED7D40ECAD0@depot.AxxisCorp.local> References: <20080731221015.GA35293@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <8F8C8CFE62002A4EB82EE1CE9F2ED7D40ECACD@depot.AxxisCorp.local> <20080731223325.GA35980@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <8F8C8CFE62002A4EB82EE1CE9F2ED7D40ECAD0@depot.AxxisCorp.local>
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On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 10:20:51AM -0500, Richard J. Valenta wrote: > I am not familiar with bsdstats at all... basically if you install port sysutils/bsdstats (just a shell script), it will send a message from your box monthly to to bsdstats.org with arch, os version, etc. The idea is to lobby software producers into supporting their stuff on bsd by showing a large number of live bsd systems. My interest is in lobbying fbsd management team not to drop alpha support by showing a large number of live fbsd alpha systems. At present the numbers are so low that even RELENG_6 support might stop soon. If more people participated and a more realistic (read higher) number of alpha boxes appeared, perhaps we could prolong the life of fbsd on alpha. However, I agree with Wilko, fbsd on alpha is half dead. 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
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