From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 10 13:29:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from q.closedsrc.org (ip233.gte15.rb1.bel.nwlink.com [209.20.244.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5065037BC37 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 13:29:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@closedsrc.org) Received: from localhost (lplist@localhost) by q.closedsrc.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e7AKSCW30213; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 13:28:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@closedsrc.org) Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 13:28:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham To: katia darling Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: supported hardware In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, katia darling mumbled: > Hi! I'm going to be entering college this year and am investigating running > linux or unix on my laptop. I writing because I was hoping you could tell > me if my Macintosh PowerBook 5300ce could run FreeBSD or not. Also would it > be a wise choice for an operating system, I don't plan on doing anything > fancy, just word processing and e-mail/web via ethernet. > Thanks very much for your assistance. > sincerely, > meg currie FreeBSD currently doesn't support PowerPC/m68k-based machines (support is coming along). You may want to take a peek at either NetBSD or OpenBSD (I forgot if OpenBSD supports PowerPC/m68k or not). You can learn more at: http://www.netbsd.org http://www.openbsd.org // Linh Pham // http://closedsrc.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message