From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 7 09:01:02 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEFE716A4CE for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2004 09:01:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mgr2.xmission.com (mgr2.xmission.com [198.60.22.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C58EC43D1F for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2004 09:01:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glewis@eyesbeyond.com) Received: from [198.60.22.204] (helo=mgr4.xmission.com) by mgr2.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1BBFT6-0007gw-02; Wed, 07 Apr 2004 10:00:00 -0600 Received: from [166.70.56.15] (helo=misty.eyesbeyond.com) by mgr4.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BBFT5-0003jN-S0; Wed, 07 Apr 2004 09:59:59 -0600 Received: from misty.eyesbeyond.com (localhost.eyesbeyond.com [127.0.0.1]) i37Fxw5G070558; Wed, 7 Apr 2004 09:59:58 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from glewis@eyesbeyond.com) Received: (from glewis@localhost) by misty.eyesbeyond.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i37FxvrC070555; Wed, 7 Apr 2004 09:59:57 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from glewis@eyesbeyond.com) X-Authentication-Warning: misty.eyesbeyond.com: glewis set sender to glewis@eyesbeyond.com using -f Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 09:59:57 -0600 From: Greg Lewis To: WebServer Message-ID: <20040407155957.GA70355@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <20040407020140.96650.qmail@web11205.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040407020140.96650.qmail@web11205.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on mgr4.xmission.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: glewis@eyesbeyond.com X-SA-Exim-Version: 3.1 (built Mon Jan 26 13:00:24 MST 2004) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Alpha Status X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 16:01:03 -0000 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