Date: Fri, 24 Jul 98 16:09:06 +0200 From: THIERRY.HERBELOT@telspace.alcatel.fr To: Richard.Brooksby@pobox.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD under Virtual PC Message-ID: <H000057c01724303@MHS> In-Reply-To: <"l03130302b1de3d7086b6(a)(091)208.208.142.213(093)*"@MHS>
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> THIERRY.HERBELOT@telspace.alcatel.fr wrote: > > > Strange way of running FreeBSD ... > > Nevertheless .. wouldn't it be easier to run NetBSD or OpenBSD on your > > Mac ? (if there is a port to Apple portables) > > There are two reasons why not: > > 1. I know FreeBSD and we use FreeBSD on our servers, so it's useful > to have exactly the same environment. > > 2. By running on Virtual PC I get to use the Mac at the same time. I can > even use TCP/IP to communicate between the two "machines" (for example > I can run Apache on the Virtual PC and browse the results on the Mac). > This is tremendously powerful for testing my work, especially since I > can do it anywhere. Then, why not a full-FreeBSD portable x86-PC ? This way, you'll have an Apache Server running on localhost and still be able to browse it from Netscape (running under X11 on the same PC) I remember having read "real hackers run -CURRENT on their laptop" (I wish I did ...) Thierry > > If I wanted to run a Unix which takes over the Mac I'd probably run > LinuxPPC or MkLinux, which seem to be fairly well supported. Of course > what I'd really like to run is Rhapsody so that I get a BSD system _and_ > Mac OS on top of Mach. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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