From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 11 21:12:24 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49C3F106568F for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:12:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tijl@ulyssis.org) Received: from cavuit02.kulnet.kuleuven.be (cavuit02.kulnet.kuleuven.be [134.58.240.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3E478FC16 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:12:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tijl@ulyssis.org) Received: from smtps02.kuleuven.be (smtpshost02.kulnet.kuleuven.be [134.58.240.75]) by cavuit02.kulnet.kuleuven.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95FC251C005; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:12:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: from kalimero.kotnet.org (kalimero.kotnet.org [10.4.16.222]) by smtps02.kuleuven.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 740CAF3863; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:12:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: from kalimero.kotnet.org (kalimero.kotnet.org [127.0.0.1]) by kalimero.kotnet.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m5BLCFjb008753; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:12:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from tijl@ulyssis.org) X-Kuleuven: This mail passed the K.U.Leuven mailcluster From: Tijl Coosemans To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Heikki Suonsivu Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:12:13 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <484FA0BF.9000402@wlansystems.com> In-Reply-To: <484FA0BF.9000402@wlansystems.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200806112312.14938.tijl@ulyssis.org> X-KULeuven-Information: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven X-KULeuven-Scanned: Found to be clean X-Spam-Status: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-50, required 5, autolearn=disabled, KUL_SMTPS -50.00) X-KULeuven-Envelope-From: tijl@ulyssis.org Cc: Subject: Re: FreeBSD-like linux distro? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:12:24 -0000 On Wednesday 11 June 2008 11:54:07 Heikki Suonsivu wrote: > I need to get something to run on x86 computers which do not > contain math in hardware, and FreeBSD dropped non-math cpus long > time ago. NetBSD did the same, so Linux seems to be the only > possibility. This is the commit that removed it: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-src/2003-July/007431.html It's probably not that difficult to reintroduce.