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Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 16:27:47 -0500 (EST)
From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <marcus@miami.edu>
Subject: Re: macs?
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To: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net>
Cc: Samhain <stonem@ica.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
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For a PPC Macintosh, there are two options I know of.  There's MkLinux
which is endorsed by Apple (http://www.mklinux.apple.com), then there's
LinuxPPC (http://www.linuxppc.org).  Both of which pale in comparison to
FreeBSD.  I am currently using MkLinux DR2.1r6 on a PPC Mac 8500/150,
and it's slow and VERY buggy.  There is a great deal of beauty in
FreeBSD's unified distribution, and small install hunks that Linux seems
to lack.  On the BSD side for PPC, OpenBSD (http://www.openbsd.org) is
developping a developer release for PPC.

Joe Clarke

On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Shawn Ramsey wrote:

> >  Hi,
> >  Just wondering, if I were to fry a Mac's HD, could I install/run FreeBSD?
> > I have a PowerPC that's just collecting dust, and I want to learn Unix, so
> > I was just curious if it could be done..
> > thanks in advance,
> > Samhain
> > "Evil will always triumph, because Good is dumb."
> 
> FreeBSD does not run on Macintosh. For a PowerPC, I think your only
> choice's are Linux, and Apple's version of UNIX. There may be some other
> Unix like OS available, but thats all I know.
> 
> 
> 
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