From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Feb 20 8:48:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from callisto.fortean.com (callisto.fortean.com [209.42.229.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D468710E5B for ; Sat, 20 Feb 1999 08:48:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from walter@fortean.com) Received: from localhost (walter@localhost) by callisto.fortean.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA13442; Sat, 20 Feb 1999 11:46:18 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: callisto.fortean.com: walter owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 11:46:17 -0500 (EST) From: "Bruce M. Walter" To: Adam Furman Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3.1/4.0, the alpha, and a dog named blue... In-Reply-To: <19990220113401.A7335@delsol.sunfire.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I want to know how stable is FreeBSD on the Alpha platform. I have an > AlphaStation 200 which I want to place FreeBSD on and get RID of RedHat > Linux. I'm not a linux fan and love the FreeBSD platform. Adam, I've not personally had experience with the AlphaStation 200, so I've copied the list on your question. I've got access to Multia's and a Personal Workstation 533au. YMMV, but aside from getting used to tracking down 'converting pointer to integer of differing size' compiler warnings, I've not noticed any real show stoppers in the last month. My machines exhibit almost all of the stability and functionality of the x86 releases. I am currently running 4.0-19990206-SNAP on everything. My ideal setup would be to track -current on the Multia's and -stable on the 533au, using it as an internal samba/nfs/cvs/web server. Things seem real solid under testing, but I've been reluctant to put the 533au into production. Hope this helps somewhat. - Bruce ______________________ Bruce M. Walter, Principal NIXdesign Group Inc. 426 S. Dawson Street Raleigh NC 27601 USA 919.829.4901 Tel 919.829.4993 Fax http://www.nixdesign.com Visual communications | concept + code To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message