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Date:      Thu, 10 Aug 2000 13:28:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Linh Pham <lplist@closedsrc.org>
To:        katia darling <katia16@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: supported hardware
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008101326330.30116-100000@q.closedsrc.org>
In-Reply-To: <F176iyAphwFutJLtosJ0000020d@hotmail.com>

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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



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