Re: Off topic: NetBSD or OpenBSD for Alpha server ?

2012-05-13 Thread Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
On 05/04/2012 07:51 PM, Kenneth Hatteland wrote: Since the alpha forum for FreeBSD is closed, and there has not been Alpha support since 6.4 I wondered about which OS to install on a alpha server I am getting quite soon. I guess FreeBSD 6.4 is perhaps not the best since it is not maintained and

Re: Off topic: NetBSD or OpenBSD for Alpha server ?

2012-05-05 Thread Kenneth Hatteland
The idea of installing FreeBSD 6.4 and experiment with upgrading to7.x and above appeals to quite a lot. If anyone have tried this I`d like to know if it is doable. I guess I`ll pick up the server one of the coming days. The tip on using OpenVMS is okay, I googled it. But this seems to be a

Re: Off topic: NetBSD or OpenBSD for Alpha server ?

2012-05-05 Thread Rod Person
On Sat, 05 May 2012 19:20:10 +0200 Kenneth Hatteland kenneth.hattel...@kleppnett.no wrote: The idea of installing FreeBSD 6.4 and experiment with upgrading to7.x and above appeals to quite a lot. If anyone have tried this I`d like to know if it is doable. I guess I`ll pick up the server one of

Re: Off topic: NetBSD or OpenBSD for Alpha server ?

2012-05-05 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 05 May 2012 19:20:10 +0200, Kenneth Hatteland wrote: The idea of installing FreeBSD 6.4 and experiment with upgrading to7.x and above appeals to quite a lot. If anyone have tried this I`d like to know if it is doable. I guess I`ll pick up the server one of the coming days. It

Re: Off topic: NetBSD or OpenBSD for Alpha server ?

2012-05-05 Thread Outback Dingo
On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Rod Person rodper...@rodperson.com wrote: On Sat, 05 May 2012 19:20:10 +0200 Kenneth Hatteland kenneth.hattel...@kleppnett.no wrote: The idea of installing FreeBSD 6.4 and experiment with upgrading to7.x and above appeals to quite a lot. If anyone have tried

Re: Off topic: NetBSD or OpenBSD for Alpha server ?

2012-05-05 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I still have FreeBSD Alpha, and OpenVMS Alpha/Itanium systems chugging along. Now, ia64 is another story. I run fbsd 10-current on ia64. Have you tried fbsd on ia64? Are you at all interested in this? -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University

Re: Off topic: NetBSD or OpenBSD for Alpha server ?

2012-05-04 Thread Outback Dingo
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Erik Nørgaard norga...@locolomo.org wrote: On 04/05/2012 19:51, Kenneth Hatteland wrote: So I checked the 2 other main contenders and just wanted to ask if anyone here had an opinion what 2 install of the BSDs ? Or perhaps FreeBSD 6.4 is a good choice ( I have

Re: Off topic: NetBSD or OpenBSD for Alpha server ?

2012-05-04 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 04:45:17PM -0400, Outback Dingo wrote: On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Erik N?rgaard norga...@locolomo.org wrote: On 04/05/2012 19:51, Kenneth Hatteland wrote: So I checked the 2 other main contenders and just wanted to ask if anyone here had an opinion what 2

Re: Off topic: NetBSD or OpenBSD for Alpha server ?

2012-05-04 Thread Robert Bonomi
Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 04:45:17PM -0400, Outback Dingo wrote: On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Erik N?rgaard norga...@locolomo.org wrote: On 04/05/2012 19:51, Kenneth Hatteland wrote: So I checked the 2 other main contenders and just

Re: Off topic: NetBSD or OpenBSD for Alpha server ?

2012-05-04 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 4 May 2012 17:11:00 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi wrote: For obselete hardware one frequetly has no alternative but to run an obselete operating system. Depending on the actual intention of use, it _may_ be no problem to use obsolete operating systems and software. (For example, I still