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From: "Pedro Giffuni S," <giffunip@asme.org>
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Douglas Carmichael wrote:
> 
> Could it be done by:
> 
> 1) Porting the "Lites" single server (http://www.cs.hut.fi/lites.html) to PowerPC

There is a newer version
http://www.cs.utah.edu/projects/flux/lites/html/

> 2) Running it under Mach (which is already used by MkLinux)

There is a NetBSD project also, but I can't recall if it runs with Mach.

> 3) Making the whole "world" except the kernel and libraries from FreeBSD/i386.
>

To be honest there is not much interest for this :(. The ALPHA port is
more interesting and I think Digital has offered some support for this.
The other platforms don't really seem to care at all.

	Pedro.