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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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