From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 6 23:16:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (oahu.WURLDLINK.NET [216.235.52.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B375D37B736 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 22:39:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA99794; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 20:39:34 -1000 (HST) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 20:39:33 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy To: David Kelly Cc: Subject: Re: NetBSD vs. FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <200101070637.f076b5Z00527@grumpy.dyndns.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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