From owner-freebsd-ppc Wed May 31 9:36:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C1DB37B633 for ; Wed, 31 May 2000 09:36:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (nobody@relay.nuxi.com [169.237.7.38]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA35570; Wed, 31 May 2000 09:35:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id JAA54542; Wed, 31 May 2000 09:35:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 09:35:35 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Christopher Petrilli Cc: freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD-ppc ideas Message-ID: <20000531093535.B54453@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200005310005.e4V05gM17560@intel.linux-florida.com> <20000531111849.A5766@trump.amber.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000531111849.A5766@trump.amber.org>; from petrilli@amber.org on Wed, May 31, 2000 at 11:18:49AM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 11:18:49AM -0400, Christopher Petrilli wrote: > The other would be do we want to restrict ourselves to the same set of > machines that Darwin is basically restricted to (G3 and above, I > believe). Yes, that is the approach we are taking. At least for a development platform. Targeting embedded boards is also the goal. > As an Apple developer, it's killing some of your market, but... at > least initially it should enormously simplify the effort of getting > support running. FreeBSD's main thrust is not history, that's what NetBSD's thrust is. FreeBSD's thrust is servers and now the embedded market. The means modern hardware, not some 5 year old box (unless it is *so* easy to support along with the modern hardware). -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) Disclaimer: Not speaking for FreeBSD, just expressing my own opinion. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ppc" in the body of the message