Re: HP rx8620 - ia64 packages.
Kevin Day <[email protected]>
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On Mar 22, 2013, at 4:01 PM, Anton Shterenlikht <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Regarding the packages, I have a desire for > an official package built to be set up again. > But somebody will have to step up to do the job. > Mark Linimon (I don't know if you are familiar > with FreeBSD/ia64 or new, so you might know > this already) was instrumental in making it work, > but he recently stepped down from whatever > ports position he held. Not sure if the new > person is willing to help with ia64 portscluster. > > Last time, about 6-9 months ago, we managed to build >15k ports. > I'm currently building i386, amd64 and sparc64 packages for 9.1, 9.0 and 8.3, which we make publicly available. If I can get this beast running, i'll get ia64 packages going too. Right now just waiting for the appropriate power to be run. > I also keep a page on browsers on ia64: > http://seis.bris.ac.uk/~mexas/freebsd/ia64/browsers.html > > Regarding the users - I was told repeatedly that > I account for the majority of FreeBSD/ia64 user base. That's a shame - maybe this will change as more ia64 boxes enter the used market where they're in the budgets for users who don't need to use a supported OS. Thanks! -- Kevin _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ia64 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"