From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Oct 7 23:30:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F0C415451 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 23:30:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from localhost (jcw@localhost) by s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA80180 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 11:31:39 GMT (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: s8-37-26.student.washington.edu: jcw owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 11:31:39 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jcw@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: FreeBSD-chat Subject: Heck With Mac68k, How about G3/G4? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Darwin runs based on BSD 4.4. If you have been paying real close attention you know that Apple people have talked about using FreeBSD code. ( I use to search their sight and come back with hits for FreeBSD this and that. ) I know Darwin runs a Mach microkernel. It would seem to me that one could build FreeBSD source under the Mach kernel using whatever compiler runs on Darwin to create a pseudo port of FreeBSD that uses -stable with a Mach kernel. Maybe using a NetBSD kernel would be even better. It seems like one would need a cpu = G3 config option once all the tools are built and away you go. Kinda like the great aout-to-elf conversion. I know its not _that_ easy. I would think it is easier than starting from scratch. Are there any Mac owners out there crazy enough to do this? I know Jordan might not spend any effort to make it happen. If someone gave it to him on a silver platter I bet he wouldn't say no. :) Why would _I_ want such a thing? Choice and diversity is my reason. Anything to break the dominant Wintel paradigm is good with me. Thank You, | http://students.washington.edu/jcwells Jason Wells | "Those who would trade freedom for security deserve neither | freedom nor security." - Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message