From owner-freebsd-ppc Mon Apr 17 5:55: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from starbug.ugh.net.au (starbug.ugh.net.au [203.31.238.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2A9237B7FE for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 05:54:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@ugh.net.au) Received: by starbug.ugh.net.au (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 08F64A893; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 22:54:53 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by starbug.ugh.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06CAB540E; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 22:54:53 +1000 (EST) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 22:54:52 +1000 (EST) From: andrew@ugh.net.au To: Richard.Brooksby@pobox.com Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD/PowerPC and Apple Darwin OS In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 Richard.Brooksby@pobox.com wrote: > The announcement of this new list didn't make any mention of Apple > Darwin OS . > "The Darwin kernel is based on FreeBSD and Mach 3.0 technologies..." > say Apple. To what extent are these projects related? Not that I know anything about it but I would say quite unrelated. FreeBSD/PPC will try to port the FreeBSD kernel to run ontop of PPC hardware as opposed to darwin which is a FreeBSD derived kernel running on top of Mach on top of PPC. FreeBSD/PPC is likely to be oriented towards embedded platforms rather than PowerMac, esp as more documentation of the hardware tends to be available. Hopefully some 3rd party PPC machines will emerge soon, perhaps based on IBMs motherboard designs they released. Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ppc" in the body of the message