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". > ... > > 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. > > My interests have moved over to sparc64 and x86-64 where I believe there
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. And Alpha hardware is so much nicer than the x86 crap out there :( W/ -- | / o / /_ _ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte FreeBSD core team secretary To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
