From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 14 10:31: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po3.wam.umd.edu (po3.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 547CE37B672 for ; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 10:31:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rac1.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:root@rac1.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.141]) by po3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA14163; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 13:31:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac1.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac1.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA18651; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 13:31:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac1.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA18647; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 13:31:00 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac1.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 13:31:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: Greg T Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: powerpc chip In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD won't run on the powerpc, that's why it doesn't say "powermac" or anything like that on the website.. FreeBSD only supports the Alpha and the x86, with a SPARC port in the works. NetBSD however does support powerpc chips on various platforms, so check out www.netbsd.org. ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Greg T wrote: > hello. > i was wondering if their is a ppc compatible version of freebsd. > it said pentium on the web-site, but i was hoping they might have > something...or something in the works. > since mac osx is bsd/mach based kernel...i was intersted in learning bsd. > thanx for your time. > --darksyyyde@hotmail.com-- > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at > http://profiles.msn.com. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message