From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 10 17:17:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f286.law9.hotmail.com [64.4.8.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 851BC37B77C for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 17:17:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chrismcnett@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 17:17:32 -0700 Received: from 209.183.76.18 by lw9fd.law9.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 GMT X-Originating-IP: [209.183.76.18] From: "Chris McNett" To: katia16@hotmail.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: supported hardware Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 00:17:31 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Aug 2000 00:17:32.0121 (UTC) FILETIME=[8AA86C90:01C00329] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD is for PC's. But if you insist upon using Macs, I think you can get a version of Redhat for Macintoshes. GET A REAL LAPTOP! GET A PC! Also, MacOS should work fine for you if you are unfamiliar with unix. I'm sure the university has a unix server for you to play around with if you ever need a unix system. >From: "katia darling" >To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: supported hardware >Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 15:21:25 CDT > >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 >________________________________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message