Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 13:49:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc van Woerkom <marc.vanwoerkom@science-factory.com> To: katia16@hotmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: supported hardware Message-ID: <20000811114953.566D91EF1@nil.science-factory.com> In-Reply-To: <F176iyAphwFutJLtosJ0000020d@hotmail.com> (katia16@hotmail.com) References: <F176iyAphwFutJLtosJ0000020d@hotmail.com>
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> Hi! I'm going to be entering college this year and am investigating running > linux or unix on my laptop. Welcome to the club. :) > I writing because I was hoping you could tell > me if my Macintosh PowerBook 5300ce could run FreeBSD or not. That Powerbook's CPU type is PowerPC. So far FreeBSD runs on x86 and Alpha CPUs. The Sparc port is not alive anymore. I heard rumours about an upcoming PPC port, but even if they are true that will still take quite a while until the product is ready for general consumption. Right now you could try NetBSD, this BSD has been ported to a huge amount of platforms. An interesting option would be to wait for Apple's upcoming Mac OS X. It is kind of a mix of Mach Kernel + FreeBSD parts + NetBSD parts + NeXT parts + Mac OS parts Some portion of that system has been released under the name Darwin. I am not sure if it has been released so far, but it might be an interesting option as it might feature a nice compromise of UNIX and Mac GUI, one that is likely be very well suited for your hardware. > 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. To be honest, most operating systems allow that today, even cr*p like Win95. I don't know what subjects you will study, but if you plan to do anything technical, open source systems like BSD or Linux will allow you to learn a lot about computers, if you like. Regards, Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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