Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 21:49:34 -0400 From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Jean-Mark Dupoux <jmdupoux@lineone.net>, mpd <mpd@rochester.rr.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mac&Tosh Message-ID: <05157510-5E38-11D6-827D-000502EDE760@shire.net> In-Reply-To: <20020502183324.B44683@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Thursday, May 2, 2002, at 09:33 , Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 12:58:23AM +0100, Jean-Mark Dupoux wrote: >>> Wrong. NetBSD will certainly run on this hardware. OpenBSD might, as >>> well. >>> FreeBSD will not. >> >> >>> From what I understood, "official" support on Apple's part for OSx was >> restricted to "real" G3 machines so it looks like openbsd might still >> have problems but Netbsd fully suported. Wouldnt know about the video >> card though. > > You're confused. The fact that OS X only supports G3 machines has > nothing > to do with the machines that NetBSD and OpenBSD support, since they are > not OS X. > That is true, he is confused. However, OS X also runs fine on older machines even though it is not supported. Thanks to the open source Darwin core of OS X, people have hacked the drivers necessary to get these older machines to run OS X too. I use a 9600 with 500mhz G3 upgrade and Sonnet IDE adapter. <http://www.openbsd.org/>; and hit platforms <http://www.netbsd.org/>; both show a PPC based version for Mac HW. http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/ is for older legacy Macs like the original poster's 8500. best regards Chad To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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