From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 8 16:43:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA15596 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 16:43:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA15589 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 16:42:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id JAA15499; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 09:12:46 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970909091246.54352@lemis.com> Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 09:12:46 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "M. L. Dodson" Cc: Jaeho Lee , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Dec Alpha References: <3413D01B.A9C68310@mail.hanyon.co.kr> <199709081359.IAA09361@beowulf.utmb.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <199709081359.IAA09361@beowulf.utmb.edu>; from M. L. Dodson on Mon, Sep 08, 1997 at 08:59:28AM -0500 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, Sep 08, 1997 at 08:59:28AM -0500, M. L. Dodson wrote: > Jaeho Lee writes: >> Hello. >> When is it possible to have FreeBSD on Dec Alpha Machine? >> It is critical for my project. I'm considering to use FreeBSD rather >> than Linux because of stability. But I need the power of Hardware like >> Alpha chip. If your plan to port Dec is not soon enough, I have to >> choose Linux as my platform. >> Thanks. > > Hate to see you do that ;-) I think the netbsd folks have an alpha > version. Look at http://www.netbsd.org People are working on an Alpha version of FreeBSD as well. But I don't think you could say that, at the moment, it's more stable than the Linux version. It's not just for the Alpha, it's definitely alpha quality as well. Greg