From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 11 6:37:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-in-01.piro.net (mail-out-02.piro.net [194.64.31.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6DF537B52F for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 06:37:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc.vanwoerkom@science-factory.com) Received: from nil.science-factory.com (ScienceFactory-atm1-153.piro.net [195.135.137.205]) by mail-in-01.piro.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/PN-991208) with ESMTP id PAA29282 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 15:37:20 +0200 Received: by nil.science-factory.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id 566D91EF1; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 13:49:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc van Woerkom To: katia16@hotmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: (katia16@hotmail.com) Subject: Re: supported hardware References: Message-Id: <20000811114953.566D91EF1@nil.science-factory.com> Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 13:49:53 +0200 (CEST) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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