Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2018 18:32:11 +0200 From: Stefan Esser <se@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Cc: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Which platform should I download for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <33a568e6-2e83-e0f9-3c43-cb4926fd22b0@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <35d1fdd4-3aac-7b2b-a778-36c517da7ade@FreeBSD.org> References: <639A96B3-0661-47B9-81A7-1284A6AE9733@icloud.com> <daeb616d-cd22-1172-ad5e-cb6527619194@quip.cz> <35d1fdd4-3aac-7b2b-a778-36c517da7ade@FreeBSD.org>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --eFACtPbuWlmqRWqTHiskDks6UWMHnacCt Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="PKn1seE1VxCVd5tTMGR75s1uSTxnPtNTi"; protected-headers="v1" From: Stefan Esser <se@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Cc: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> Message-ID: <33a568e6-2e83-e0f9-3c43-cb4926fd22b0@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Which platform should I download for FreeBSD? References: <639A96B3-0661-47B9-81A7-1284A6AE9733@icloud.com> <daeb616d-cd22-1172-ad5e-cb6527619194@quip.cz> <35d1fdd4-3aac-7b2b-a778-36c517da7ade@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <35d1fdd4-3aac-7b2b-a778-36c517da7ade@FreeBSD.org> --PKn1seE1VxCVd5tTMGR75s1uSTxnPtNTi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am 09.09.18 um 18:13 schrieb Matthew Seaman: > On 09/09/2018 14:20, Miroslav Lachman wrote: >> Jason Lindsey via freebsd-arch wrote on 2018/09/09 01:53: >>> I hope you help me, >>> >>> I own a iMac 64, and do not know if I should download amd64 or arm64 >>> platforms to support FreeBSD.=A0 I would appreciate an answer to my >>> question ASAP, in that I currently learning Solaris 10 and other >>> versions of BSD software.=A0 I would like to include FreeBSD in my st= udies. >=20 > Solaris 10 is SysV, not BSD. You have to go all the way back to SunOS > 4.x for the last BSD variant from Sun. A pedantic distinction I know, > but it's what some of us live for. To be really pedantic: The USL vs. BSDI lawsuit found, that Sys V.4 (or Solaris 5) contained more BSD than SysV code, and that the only change was the removal of the BSD copyright text (which actually was the only change *not* allowed by the copyrighgt clauses ...). > So, unless the OP has a rather elderly machine, amd64 is the > architecture you need. There did use to be some PPC support in FreeBSD= , > but it never was a Tier-1 architecture, and I think it's basically > unsupported if not gone entirely on up-to-date versions of the OS. Yes, it's definitely amd64, but PPC support is being worked on and alive as a tier-2 platform with support for both the 32 and 64 bit variants: https://wiki.freebsd.org/powerpc Regards, STefan --PKn1seE1VxCVd5tTMGR75s1uSTxnPtNTi-- --eFACtPbuWlmqRWqTHiskDks6UWMHnacCt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCgAdFiEEo3HqZZwL7MgrcVMTR+u171r99UQFAluVSwsACgkQR+u171r9 9URTqAf/UcsxnzBjsClXRYUlLQdpBP7Qhow+rvnNWTP0EWs87lbdGuzoezQtV0Br a7uVYUC9FAdI3Gqr1ox/zoyab39vflYTzEse/s7pOT5fd+OoKRL3vujbdWLucJZ1 PRrke1wxhnmkcTYWvRHbRKh3ZwEiDuEl7yEnBbDSrE3tS7JPYn4mqQt4kLcOHjt5 InQEHYIcDqWKi2LTesw23NBY5JCGJ2ktTKG4IOsN/B7pWggKAMZBzZF9CveqJLRX tGyinOlSoRhLWiRn/pc5L6ZFbFQvvnIgTrzj10ZiycDA4jfTpFKdDAa5PxPFrehu C7lUBzTB74WJtuOPzNSPU5Hk7GgLQg== =kFlU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --eFACtPbuWlmqRWqTHiskDks6UWMHnacCt--
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