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Subject: Re: Mac&Tosh
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Cc: Jean-Mark Dupoux <jmdupoux@lineone.net>,
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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


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