From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 12 22:44:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA19572 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 22:44:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [207.141.254.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA19554; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 22:44:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (mail.futuresouth.com [207.141.254.21]) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA02430; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:44:00 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:44:00 -0500 (CDT) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: dkelly@hiwaay.net cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-platforms@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD for the PowerMac? In-Reply-To: <199710121845.NAA05432@nospam.hiwaay.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 12 Oct 1997 dkelly@hiwaay.net wrote: > If wanting Un*x on a PowerMac, I think the most likely solution will be > to use BeOS or wait for Rhapsody. Both claim POSIX compliance and offer > Un*x shells. The other advantage would be you can have your cake and > eat it too, as you will have both Un*x and the native OS at the same > time. > > Once Be and Apple provide the baseline, I'd hope for a port of all the > good Un*x toys we all know and love. Similar to what was done for OS/2. > Haven't heard any hints of an X for the new PowerMac OS's yet. > Last I heard Net/OPenBSD had support for PowerPC processors; it was a little shaky, and had some problems with bootup at some points, but it ran. I dunno; look at their respective websites, www.{open|net}bsd.org. > Only time will tell how well this works. > > -- > David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net > ===================================================================== > The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its > capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * FreeBSD: turning PCs into workstations * | Windows: turning workstations into typewriters | * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*