Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 10:52:58 -0500 From: Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com> To: Cory Kempf <ckempf@enigami.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: USB drivers Message-ID: <4.1.19990131104912.009a4c30@genesis.ispace.com> In-Reply-To: <x7btjgf1x4.fsf@singularity.enigami.com> References: <Drew Baxter's message of "Sat, 30 Jan 1999 16:59:55 -0500"> <4.1.19990130165850.03d64530@genesis.ispace.com>
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At 12:26 AM 1/31/99 , Cory Kempf wrote: >Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com> writes: > >> At 04:28 PM 1/30/99 , Jason Thorpe wrote: >> It's unfortunate FreeBSD does >> not have a PPC port (not even in the works I don't think), because I'd >> imagine it'd perform rather well. > >Not sure I can agree about the performance, however, Apple's MacOS X Server >(that name *REALLY* sucks... I see it and keep thinking of an X server), >their marketting department's new name for Rhapsody, is essentially 4.4 BSD >on top of a Mach microkernel. Well we could take a 'blast from the past' and talk about A/UX :-) >Apple is supposed to be working with the various BSD folk, and swapping some >code back and forth. > >I think they are currently taking orders on their web site. > >Tennon has MachTen, which is also a BSD port to PowerMac. If I remember right, Machten is a combination of Mach and BSD 4.4. I can't really say my experiences with it were too impressive. Considering I couldn't compile a simple copy of IRCII-2.8 without having to go in and hack the hell out of it. It's Tenon Intersystems if I remember right, www.tenon.com. I have not yet checked out PowerMachten, which could theoretically be better. Back in the day I was using Machten 2.3 on a Performa 476 (68LC040 based machine). The integration is there (just like running SoftPC on a Mac, the integration is decent as well there), but it failed to build a lot of stuff that any other BSD-based machine here would. So I moved away from it, in favor of FreeBSD, yet again. :) --- Drew "Droobie" Baxter Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM) OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange, Bangor Maine USA http://www.droo.orland.me.us PGP ID: 409A1F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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