From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Nov 9 2:58:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.wxs.nl (smtp01.wxs.nl [195.121.6.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0EC614DA1 for ; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 02:58:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bottemanne@capitolonline.nl) Received: from capitolonline.nl ([195.121.168.166]) by smtp01.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAA5F29; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 11:58:06 +0100 Message-ID: <3827FE9A.F0B1971A@capitolonline.nl> Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 11:59:38 +0100 From: Aernoudt Bottemanne X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Don Cc: mholloway@flashmail.com, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.3 works perfect.. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. 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. 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. (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.... Aernoudt Don wrote: > > > So far I do not fully agree about FreeBSD on Alpha. There is a lot of > > progress on 4.0 current so I keep hoping....it will be better. > > At this moment Debian on Alpha is way ahead on FreeBSD on ALpha: both > > for the amount of applications and for performance etc etc. Since I > > prefer FreeBSD I will just keep waiting for better times, don't get me > > wrong : - ) > This is not entirely true. This depends a _lot_ on what hardware you have. > I have a series of older 200 4/233's and they installed far easier using > FreeBSD than with Debian and overall the system ran a lot smoother. Some > of the newer hardware is still unsupported or only recently supported > which is what causes the problems. This will definitely change as time > goes on. > > -don > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message