Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 21:18:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Aernoudt Bottemanne <bottemanne@capitolonline.nl> Cc: Don <don@calis.blacksun.org>, mholloway@flashmail.com, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.3 works perfect.. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911092115100.25540-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <3827FE9A.F0B1971A@capitolonline.nl>
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On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Aernoudt Bottemanne wrote: > Hi Don, > > > Exactly my point: the support is gettings better. On PWS and PC164 the > level of support of (debian) Linux is still better. for the machine you > describe I don't know, and you do so I'll take your word for it. I'm interested in why you think our support for PWS and PC164 is lower than Linux. I have both of these boxes and they were among the first machines to ever run FreeBSD/alpha. > > At this moment things like wmmon etc don't run on PWS and PC164 without > problems: worng display, even if my machines are 'idle' the proceeor is > indicated to be 100% in use. I believe this problem is fixed in -current. I expect 4.0 to be a very good release for the alpha architecture compared to 3.x. > All this sort of stuff still has a long > way to go. But I have good hope (given the progress over the last months > already) that this will be solved. I sure hope so. At this moment I > break my neck over the differences in wehere to put settings etc, so > I'll be glad when the Alpha platform is fully supported. As to the location of settings and configuration files, this is exactly the same as for FreeBSD/i386 (or should be). > (I also have > some Intel machines, but I don't like Intel: performance etc etc) > Also havbing a native Applixware on Alpha would be nice.... Yes it would :-) -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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