Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 09:59:57 -0600 From: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> To: WebServer <aguasc@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Alpha Status Message-ID: <20040407155957.GA70355@misty.eyesbeyond.com> In-Reply-To: <20040407020140.96650.qmail@web11205.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040407020140.96650.qmail@web11205.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 09:01:40PM -0500, WebServer wrote: > Before all, could you give the "REAL" status of the > version distros? I mean: > - What is fully functional > - What not > - Which machines are really supported? (Any get > succesfully installed on EB164?) I have 4.9 and 5.2 running on an EB164. Everything I have on the box works fine. There appear to be occasional glitches (every week or so) with the NIC, but that may well be hardware related. > - Hardware support: sound, modem, nic, bla bla > - Xfree works? tga support? Probably best to read the hardware support notes, but this all should work. > - How many alpha users/developer are? the future > promises? Dwindling, as you might expect of hardware thats been killed off. > - There is more functional than RH 7.1? HP/Compaq released their own version of RH 7.2. That gets you a little more up to date. > After search for a functional boot floppies & several > tries to write the partitions, i give up ... sadly i > find that 5.2.1 still is not ready (correct me if > doesn't true) and follows the incomplete way of: > Mandrake and Debian. So, i must resign to use the dead > and more functional RH7.1. You do realise that FreeBSD isn't Linux right? If you want Linux you might also look at Gentoo. I believe they have an alpha port. -- Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com Information Technology FreeBSD : glewis@FreeBSD.org
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