On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 07:32:29PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 09:13:13AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 08:20:39AM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > > > That's easy to say when signing up somebody else to do the work. > > > > > > Seriously though, in spite of pretending otherwise, i386 *is* our reference > > > platform, and the "other" platforms require people with the hardware and > > > interest to keep it "alive". > > ...
Not to forget knowledge and time. > > > If there isn't enough critical mass to keep it going, then it is dead > > > by definition. > > > > This is my current feeling -- that Alpha 5-CURRENT no long has any > > critical mass. Thus it isn't worth the time or trouble. I'm would not call it dead only because it's always behind development. The latest alpha-current I'm running is nearly a month old - just because I always want to see a stable i386 before which I havn't seen for the last weeks. Sorry - I can't spend my time on alpha *and* machine independ bugs. > > My interests have moved over to sparc64 and x86-64 where I believe there Many alpha bugs and problems are there because of LP64 not because of alpha - other LP64 platforms will put LP64 into a much stronger position and help alpha a lot. I was always interested in FreeBSD-alpha because of having more than 4G memory and more than 4G address space - mostly the later. None is working - Memory is limited to 2G and increasing MAXDSIZ to big values is simply broken. Not ashtonishing that there is no big interest for anyoone to use FreeBSD-alpha in production - you can have these limits cheaper and without the bug troubles using Intel hardware. I always been sorrowed to run an FreeBSD-alpha as a cvsup server. > For x86-64 I see the point, sparc64 is not something I would want to spend > any time on (no disrespect to the sparc64 folks, I just don't think sparc > will have any great momentum). > > > will be a much larger following. It is shame after I've spent several > > thousand $$ on Alpha hardware over the past three years. That's what makes me still beleave in FreeBSD-alpha. Alpha is the cheapest 64 bit platform available. Think a moment on what you have paid for your sun labeled symbios. > And Alpha hardware is so much nicer than the x86 crap out there :( The same goes for sparc64 compared to x86. And sparc64 has a better future from the hardware perspective. I can understand why people are looking forward to sparc64. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usergroup [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
