Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 20:39:33 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: NetBSD vs. FreeBSD? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101062038420.57171-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> In-Reply-To: <200101070637.f076b5Z00527@grumpy.dyndns.org>
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On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, David Kelly wrote: > Vincent Poy writes: > > On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, David Kelly wrote: > > > Doubt MacOS X will ever run x86 FreeBSD binaries. VirtualPC is said to > > > be able to run FreeBSD now on any PowerMac under recent MacOS's. > > > Haven't tried. Was told patches were needed and downloadable from the > > > support site for my VirtualPC 3.0. Got the 4.0 update with the G4. > > > > Interesting... I was planning to get a Cube just to run a FreeBSD > > machine but I never thought about the VIrtualPC option. > > An Apple PowerMac Cube G4 will not run FreeBSD either. Darwin, MacOS 9 > and X, are the only options. Also conceivable to run FreeBSD under > VirtualPC. > > There have been rumors of Apple building a VirtualPC-like feature into > the OS, or fulling integrating VirtualPC similar to the -box stuff > Apple uses to do classic PPC and 68k Mac stuff under MacOS X. Wait, > they may be dropping the 68k support in X. Yeah, I wonder what kinda performance would one get running FreeBSD under VirtualPC though. Or maybe a bookpc might be a better idea. Cheers, Vince - vince@WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] Almighty1@IRC - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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