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Subject: Re: Doesn't anything work around here?
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Christian Baer wrote:
                                                                 ^^^^^
> Someone is working on FreeBSD/sparc32?

FreeBSD does not support 32-bit sparc and it is unlikely it ever will.

> I'm just wondering how two really common apps that have been broken for
> quite a while now could just slip through the grid.

Few people use sparc64 on their desktop.  That means that if you want to 
do that you are running without the benefit of a large testing 
community, and you will have to shoulder part of that burden yourself.

Kris