Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 20:35:24 +0100 From: Martin Welk <mw@theatre.sax.de> To: Matthew Crema <crema@bu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Free BSD on IBM/RS6000 Message-ID: <20000127203524.I91199@theatre.lan> In-Reply-To: <38907BCD.1412CF5B@bu.edu>; from crema@bu.edu on Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 12:09:33PM -0500 References: <38907BCD.1412CF5B@bu.edu>
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On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 12:09:33PM -0500, Matthew Crema wrote: > I don't know much about Free BSD compatible hardware. > > Is there a version for the IBM RS/6000 Power PC chipset? There is no FreeBSD verison for RS/6000. There is only a Sparc port in work. I haven't looked to deep into NetBSD, but I don't think there's a port for RS/6000. However, there is LinuxPPC for PowerPC based machines, which includes for example Apple Macintosh and also IBM RS/6000. The web pages (http://www.linuxppc.org/) say, it runs only on PowerPC CPU based machines with PCI bus, there's no support for Microchannel architecture. I've read today in comp.unix.aix rumours about people running Linux on PowerPC based MCA machines, but I haven't seen such a system running yet - at all, there doesn't seem to exist a distribution. Regards, Martin -- ,,You know, there's a lot of opportunities, if you're knowing to take them, you know, there's a lot of opportunities, if there aren't you can make them, make or break them!'' (Tennant/Lowe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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