From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 14 11:41:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E11B216A4CE for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 11:41:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from destiny.chrononomicon.com (mail.chrononomicon.com [65.193.73.208]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07ADE43D48 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 11:41:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsilver@chrononomicon.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (destiny.chrononomicon.com [192.168.1.42]) by destiny.chrononomicon.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B3601FE26 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 07:41:30 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) In-Reply-To: <20040914032740.32133.qmail@web52705.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040914032740.32133.qmail@web52705.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <04C7AA70-0643-11D9-9A0F-000D9338770A@chrononomicon.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Bart Silverstrim Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 07:41:29 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) Subject: Re: Which Distro? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 11:41:55 -0000 On Sep 13, 2004, at 11:27 PM, Viper wrote: > I am going to buy a Mac g4 soon, and I am thinking > about turning it into a server. I asked around and > everybody rocommended FreeBSD to me. So what distro of > FreeBSD would I use for a mac computer? As far as I know, there isn't a "freebsd" release for the PPC chip. There is a version of NetBSD, though, and there's Darwin. Personally, I'd say stick with the OS X that comes with a new G4 system. It *IS* Darwin underneath, much of it is *based* on FreeBSD, and can make a decent server system (plus it would support OS X programs as well as the UNIX programs). Are you going to use it exclusively as a server? You could just put Darwin on it if you really wanted to. If you're going to have it play double duty as a desktop system, keep OS X on it. If you just want to play with different OS's on it, try NetBSD. If you really want to try FreeBSD, get Virtual PC for the Mac and see if it will install FreeBSD into a virtual machine :-) -Bart