Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 21:54:19 -0500 From: Shin Katsumata <skat@flask.com> To: "Pedro Giffuni S," <giffunip@asme.org>, Freebsd-platforms@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD for the PowerMac? Message-ID: <34403BD6.58AFA92F@flask.com> References: <199710102301.SAA00400@dcarmich.pr.mcs.net> <343F312A.386@asme.org>
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Rhapsody, new OS for Power Mac (NextStep), is based on BSD 4.4 lite server running on top of Mach Kernel. I hope Apple will keep the consol/terminal in the OS for those of us who want the command line interface. Shin Pedro Giffuni S, wrote: > Douglas Carmichael wrote: > > > > Could it be done by: > > > > 1) Porting the "Lites" single server (http://www.cs.hut.fi/lites.html) to PowerPC > > There is a newer version > http://www.cs.utah.edu/projects/flux/lites/html/ > > > 2) Running it under Mach (which is already used by MkLinux) > > There is a NetBSD project also, but I can't recall if it runs with Mach. > > > 3) Making the whole "world" except the kernel and libraries from FreeBSD/i386. > > > > To be honest there is not much interest for this :(. The ALPHA port is > more interesting and I think Digital has offered some support for this. > The other platforms don't really seem to care at all. > > Pedro.
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