From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 2 19:56:45 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C75A910656F2 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 19:56:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mdinon@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qw0-f54.google.com (mail-qw0-f54.google.com [209.85.216.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81F098FC17 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 19:56:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qwj9 with SMTP id 9so350622qwj.13 for ; Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:56:44 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=SwfY859ekTu3zKY3DPP1XKZmbcAkEcPQH9H/v7bReMU=; b=k6Ew/gWXbzVtoqhsekVPTBdMl3pieRG1jd4uPDc7LCcC5poaoDWY85Aiycyfgj0+Ay t/Utu1kKXnE97LbD1SmjHe+RpmYbWbjgotC1TA496rou7u7NShZB4J1uVqM927gGWhlQ 5k11Hw+GBv5L5c2GbTXV72Cm4apMAqu9yQQGE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=eWJAkQolIxPdCnfZ9bKLqZ61GWHvD1DGqyKw/+LHM1h7FaqxXumj1WNaqdeR/Ypt88 fMEY/LWE/jkfUvSLrETd6U8DwHK3lr5y7c0BCARxqTbv+dpvA2b5J5Y86ptvJ6QswF4e P22Mw9XPvvt/CSX7YgWknpxysJCyDsunEMHKE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.88.213 with SMTP id b21mr8602573qcm.166.1296675120443; Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:32:00 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.229.110.11 with HTTP; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 11:32:00 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 11:32:00 -0800 Message-ID: From: Michael Dinon To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: FreeBSD on ibook G4 circa 2004 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:56:46 -0000 Hello, I am looking for viable alternatives to keep an old ibook I have running relevant software. I have in the past used Debian and various other Linux distros but support for PPC seems to be becomes less and less viable. I had looked previously at the BSD's as an option for PPC and found various information although somewhat limited. I am curious how well supported is PPC by FreeBSD, is there anyone on this list running similar hardware and using FreeBSD on as a laptop as opposed to server duty? I know the Broadcom Airport Extreme card is not well supported by most opensource OS's. When looking at some of the FreeBSD info on PPC I saw that at one point certain keyboards and trackpads were not supported which required USB keyboards, is that still true? I also stumbled on a new installer bsdinstall, has anyone used this on similar hardware? Also does one need to keep an hfs partition still? I seem to remember Linux required an hfs partition, not sure if that is true of the BSD. I don't plan on needing OSX. Anyway thank you in advance for any help or suggestions. -- Mike