On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 04:54:13AM -0500, eqe_at_cox.net wrote: > On Wednesday 10 December 2003 00:44, you wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 10:43:02PM -0500, eqe_at_cox.net wrote: > > > Isn't alpha dead? Why bother supporting them in 5.2 it seems like wasted > > > energy. Yes people still use it but for them there is 4.9 which works > > > fine. You could better serve the freebsd community by focusing on the > > > future of computing like amd64, great dual support, better drivers, etc. > > > and most people know this, so why not let alpha die. I personally like > > > alpha but it has no future. ... > community by concentrating our efforts on just platforms that are more > mainstream in the server market. I personally would stop dev. on anything > lower than a PII for 5.2. Its not abandonment it's just progress, their are > greater issues at hand that need attention like smp. Futher more netbsd will > always support them as well as 4.9. so I don't really see any great loss > here. I support a lan that has mostly modern equipment but it does have two > 586 on the network. on one of them I have 5.1 running on it just for fun, but > considering that getting more ram for the system would cost co. more than the > mashine is worth it is really dead and when anything breaks in it. those 486s > will see the dumpster w/o question. Ever heared about embedded systems? Followups to /dev/null -- | / o / /_ _ |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte wilko_at_FreeBSD.orgReceived on Wed Dec 10 2003 - 01:10:42 UTC
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