FreeBSD is too focused on x86
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I had FreeBSD installed on my Alpha for a couple of weeks. I was very disapointed. There appears to be little or no Alpha-specific documentation for FreeBSD, however there are many Alpha-specific issues.
I currently have OpenBSD on that box. Much better, but there are still some problems (no X11 on vga).
Linux seems to be moving faster these days. AFAIK none of the BSD's have decent SMP support yet. NetBSD runs on lots of hardware, but Linux seems to be better optimized on more platforms.
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I had FreeBSD installed on my Alpha for a couple of weeks. I was very disapointed. There appears to be little or no Alpha-specific documentation for FreeBSD, however there are many Alpha-specific issues.
I currently have OpenBSD on that box. Much better, but there are still some problems (no X11 on vga).
Linux seems to be moving faster these days. AFAIK none of the BSD's have decent SMP support yet. NetBSD runs on lots of hardware, but Linux seems to be better optimized on more platforms.
Just my $0.02.
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I believe that Alpha based Crays (T3E) use the Alpha in big-endian mode.
BTW, PPC is also bi-endian.