From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 31 07:53:20 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA12234 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 07:53:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us (Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us [169.244.111.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA12228 for ; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 07:53:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from netmonger@genesis.ispace.com) Received: from celeris (56k-port4027.ime.net [209.90.195.37]) by Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us (8.9.1/8.8.8-Loki) with SMTP id KAA82676; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 10:53:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from netmonger@genesis.ispace.com) X-Server-ID: Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us, OCSNet - Orland Maine USA X-Coord-Name: Drew "Droobie" Baxter, OneNetwork Exchange X-Coord-Addr: Droobie@Openlink.orland.me.us X-Coord-Pager: USA: 207-471-2719, http://pagedroo.orland.me.us Message-Id: <4.1.19990131104912.009a4c30@genesis.ispace.com> X-Sender: netmonger@genesis.ispace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 10:52:58 -0500 To: Cory Kempf , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: Drew Baxter Subject: Re: USB drivers In-Reply-To: References: <4.1.19990130165850.03d64530@genesis.ispace.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 12:26 AM 1/31/99 , Cory Kempf wrote: >Drew Baxter 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