HEADSUP: Alpha support is being retired in 7.0

[Scott Seekamp]

Sad to see it go! Freebsd-Alpha was the first version of Freebsd I used. I
picked up an AS4100 from work that was going in the scrap metal and
revived it for many faithful years of service.

Thanks for all the hard work to those of you who made it possible!

Scott

> Alpha was the first non-x86 port that was added to FreeBSD, and as such it
> has
> greatly aided the efforts to keep FreeBSD from being too i386-centric.
> However, recently the Alpha port has not had any active development or
> maintenance.  As a result, the quality of the Alpha releases that the
> Project
> provides are not on par with other supported architectures and is in fact
> degrading.  Unfortunately, as an architecture it has also been killed by
> its
> creator.
>
> After considering all of this, it is time to part with Alpha for 7.0 and
> beyond.  At this time it is still planned to provide 6.x releases for
> FreeBSD/alpha.  The code will still be around in CVS history if someone
> suddenly shows up and fixes a bunch of bugs and/or the architecture is
> revived.  Users with Alpha systems are welcome to use existing releases of
> FreeBSD/alpha or another BSD such as NetBSD/alpha.  We would still like to
> see bug fixes for FreeBSD/alpha on 6.x so that the final release is solid.
>
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