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Subject: Re: FreeBSD Alpha Status
From: Greg Lewis <glewis () eyesbeyond ! com>
Date: 2004-04-07 15:59:57
Message-ID: 20040407155957.GA70355 () misty ! eyesbeyond ! 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.
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Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com
Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com
Information Technology FreeBSD : glewis@FreeBSD.org
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