From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 14 4:16:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from slate.dublin.wbtsystems.com (slate.dublin.wbtsystems.com [193.120.231.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4386837B41B for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 04:16:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from spiral (spiral.dublin.wbtsystems.com [193.120.231.190]) (authenticated bits=0) by slate.dublin.wbtsystems.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g1ECGiA2032376; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 12:16:44 GMT From: "Barry Byrne" To: "Guy De Lee" , Subject: RE: freeBSD on Mac Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 12:16:40 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Guy: FreeBSD is primarily available for Intel and Dec Alpha platforms, with ports to some other architectures in various stages of progress: http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ If you are keen to run a BSD version other than Darwin on your Mac, you might want to check out NetBSD: http://www.netbsd.org/ Cheers, Barry -- Barry Byrne, IT Manager, WBT Systems, Block 2, Harcourt Centre Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, Ireland > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Guy De Lee > Sent: 14 February 2002 12:10 > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: freeBSD on Mac > > > Hello, > I just want to ask a -maybe stupid- question. > I'm a total newbie in unixsystems and since I'm being educated in > networking I would like to know if I can install a freeBSD version on a > Macintosh and what freeBSD version I should download. I'm now busy > studying the freeBSD handbook from your site but I would like to > excercice with it on a Mac. I'm now running OS X which is based on > FreeBSD (Darwin) I would like to have more control over that system, but > before I do that I sure want to know how things work. I have to start > somewhere, don't I ? I think you'll get my point here by now. > So as a total newbie I want to know If there is a version available for > Mac, which one I can download and where. > > Thanks Greets Guy > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message