why support alpha??
Wilko Bulte
wkb at freebie.xs4all.nl
Wed Dec 10 02:10:42 PST 2003
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?
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