Re: FreeBSD sparc64
Bill Sorenson <[email protected]> Thu, 6 Feb 2020 10:27:47 -0600
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On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 9:31 AM Mark Linimon <[email protected]> wrote: > > Correct. portmgr has not built packages for sparc64 in many years. > > Up until about a year ago I was building them myself, but other work > called me away from that task. > > Unfortunately sparc64 has now (officially) fallen below the threshhold > where FreeBSD can support it. As of a week or two ago support was > removed from the -CURRENT src tree. > > So, I'm sorry, but I think you should pick one of the other *BSDs at > this point. > > mcl I've been a hobbyist user of FreeBSD on sparc64 for quite a while. I've had reasonable luck with 11.X, issues with 12.X. Going forward I'd recommend OpenBSD, its been very stable for me, very few issues and many packages are available pre-built. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-sparc64 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"