Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 12:38:44 -0700 From: Maurice Andres <lusseau@telus.net> To: Shane Harbour <rightzy@earthnet.net> Subject: Re: redundant webpages Message-ID: <CEC5C4E5-2D06-11D9-8BCA-000A2798460C@telus.net> In-Reply-To: <A526E178-2ABE-11D9-A8C9-000A95DC0238@earthnet.net> References: <764D7782-2A27-11D9-A56D-000A2798460C@telus.net> <C93DDF1E-2A80-11D9-A8C9-000A95DC0238@earthnet.net> <734B0765-2A98-11D9-8661-000A2798460C@telus.net> <A526E178-2ABE-11D9-A8C9-000A95DC0238@earthnet.net>
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Thanks.
I'm excited. As I will be looking for a OS X replacement ([I'm tired
of how OS X runs on an old computer] on a imac DV 400 mhz), I'm will be
looking to run my peripheries such as my scanner with sane, printer
with gimp-print, and my external burner with firewire (USB could be an
option). Open and Net bsds seem to be lacking in a lot of these areas,
on the other hand it seems that FreeBSD has sane down packed. Will the
mac-ppc version of FreeBsd have support for the areas mentioned? This
is my concern.
I read many of the correspondence at the mail archive. I also read the
installation guide but I'm afraid that installing is not an option
quite yet as it suggests to only install over a non-HFS+ partition
("free space" as created by disk utility). I have no such partition
but only HFS+ and linux ext3 partitions.
Andres
PS-By not a complete OS, I take it there is no desktop environment yet.
On 30-Oct-04, at 3:57 PM, Shane Harbour wrote:
> The ISO is located at http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan. There's also
> some other things there too. Some people have had great luck with it
> and others not so great luck. It mostly just depends on your
> hardware. You also won't get a full blown ready to use OS. The port
> is still in the works. I highly recommend you read through the
> FreeBSD-PPC mailing list archives to see what hardware seems to work
> and what doesn't. Some say it's easier for them to cross-compile on
> one machine and do a network boot. At any rate, read the archives.
> They have a lot of good information in them.
>
> Shane
>
> On Oct 30, 2004, at 11:23 AM, Maurice Andres wrote:
>
>> Thanks for getting back.
>>
>> Great new to hear? But is it stable? Does it boot into full usable
>> OS? And where is it kept?
>>
>> Andres
>>
>> On 30-Oct-04, at 8:34 AM, Shane Harbour wrote:
>>
>>> The pages located on webpagearchitects.net are only temporary. They
>>> were posted there so everyone could review them before submitting
>>> them to replace the old pages currently on the FreeBSD site. The
>>> new pages were submitted to Peter Grehan who has worked diligently,
>>> along with others, on the PPC port. At the moment, he is away with
>>> limited e-mail access until about November.
>>>
>>> As for a bootable CD, quite a few individuals have FreeBSD running
>>> on a myriad of PPC hardware. There is a bootable ISO or you can
>>> create your own.
>>>
>>> Shane
>>>
>>> On Oct 29, 2004, at 9:54 PM, Maurice Andres wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm not subscribing but why don't you guys consolidate info since
>>>> you people have two pages on mac-ppc:
>>>> http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ppc.html
>>>> http://www.webpagearchitects.net/freebsd-ppc/
>>>>
>>>> It might give the image that the project is not dead and provide
>>>> some insight into BSD enthusiasts. This is important 'cause the
>>>> 2002 page always shows up under a search from the main site and not
>>>> the up to date june 2004 page.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> PS- How far is a stable bootable CD? I joke with friends that this
>>>> project is a testing ground for apple OS X and therefore there will
>>>> never be a FreeBSD mac-ppc release. The implication 'cause apple
>>>> would not encourage it since that is its prime source.
>>>>
>>>> Chascon
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>
>>
>
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