From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 26 4:56:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1507E37B417 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 04:56:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2QCueT80833; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 07:56:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 07:56:39 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: Scott Sipe Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha Build Message-ID: <20020326075639.D80675@blackhelicopters.org> References: <200203252100.g2PL0TD39756@rahl.dorm.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200203252100.g2PL0TD39756@rahl.dorm.duke.edu>; from cscotts@mindspring.com on Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 04:00:29PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Either would work. I have an Alpha Multia-166 that I use to play with -current on. As it has a TGA card, it's running via serial console. This machine feels like the equivalent of, say, a 50MHz 486. Each day, I try to build -current. (Hey, it's good for a laugh. :-) I'd grab one with a normal graphics card, in your case. On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 04:00:29PM -0500, Scott Sipe wrote: > > Hi, I have a chance to pick up an Alpha machine which I would use for FreeBSD > testing. > > There are 4 AlphaStation 600's from which I could pick, 2 of them have 'TGA > graphics cards', 2 have "normal" graphics cards and "can run X." Seeing as > right now I know next to nothing about Alpha's, would it be better to pick > one or the other, or, would one or the other be better for freeBSD testing? > > thanks much, > Scott > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org my FreeBSD column: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message