From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 21 17:22:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA21815 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 21 Feb 1998 17:22:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from implode.root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA21810 for ; Sat, 21 Feb 1998 17:22:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA27410; Sat, 21 Feb 1998 17:21:02 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199802220121.RAA27410@implode.root.com> To: "John Krebbs" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD - Compatability In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 21 Feb 1998 19:28:31 GMT." <19980222002511.AAA5045@[12.68.160.142]> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 17:21:02 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Greetings. I'll be attending College this fall, as a Computer Science >Major. We are required to obtain a copy of FreeBSD for use during the >spring semester. Now, I'm a devoted Macintosh user, and would like to >purchase one for my college years. The problem is, FreeBSD apparently >doesn't run on it. Now, I've been thinking of buying VirtualPC, a program >from Connectix, in order to run Windows on my Mac. If I did so, would it be >possible to run FreeBSD from the Mac also? Unfortunately, no. If you really want to run BSD on the Mac, you might consider NetBSD (www.netbsd.org), although that is probably inconsistent with your college's requirements. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message