From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 10 16:16:00 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6B2116A4B3 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:16:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vms1.rit.edu (vms1.isc.rit.edu [129.21.3.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6FE543F93 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:15:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bjm1287@ritvax.isc.rit.edu) Received: from garfield (64-212-204-47.nrp1feld.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [64.212.204.47]) by ritvax.isc.rit.edu (PMDF V6.2-X17 #30660) with ESMTPA id <01L1OATGNBO24TLXAV@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 19:15:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 19:15:16 -0400 From: Brian McCann In-reply-to: <1541670.1065824576449.JavaMail.paulbeard@mac.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <001201c38f84$5e2d2da0$6500a8c0@garfield> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal Subject: RE: FreeBSD on a Mac G3? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 23:16:00 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thanks to all. Looks like it's going to be a "guess and test" to find an OS I really like. I'm probably eventually going to get Panther when it comes out. Since I work for a school...academic price is nice and cheep! :) Again, thanks to all. - --Brian - -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Paul Beard Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 6:23 PM To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on a Mac G3? On Friday, October 10, 2003, at 09:09AM, Mykroft Holmes IV wrote: >While there is a Ports system for Darwin/OS X, called GNUDarwin, >avoid it, as it is notorious for breaking the basic OS install >without asking. or you can use the DarwinPorts collection, which has Apple support behind it (longtime FreeBSD users will recognize Jordan Hubbard is: he's on the DarwinPorts team). >Fink is a better alternative, it's pretty much a port of the Debian >package management system, with somewhat improved source handling. >As it dumps all downloaded software in /sw, it doesn't break the >base install. Very nifty. Works very well. I used Fink for quite a while but it seemed to lose focus on reliability. I moved to darwinports (which offers source code ports and packages) and it seems to work just fine. - -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use iQA/AwUBP4c9hERPmxonqOz6EQLnpACg9F2GFce1x6Vz2Ar+qCiyjEHAjaYAoLvy jUzv7KgLACPpcGf60EaI9HZC =QsYs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----