From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 27 9: 4:43 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DD9437B401 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 09:04:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (A17-250-248-88.apple.com [17.250.248.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C0DE43FBB for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 09:04:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rolnif@mac.com) Received: from asmtp02.mac.com (asmtp02-qfe3 [10.13.10.66]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id h0RH4bLp005660 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 09:04:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from mac.com ([66.92.1.188]) by asmtp02.mac.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id H9DU3O00.L51 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 09:04:36 -0800 Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 09:00:46 -0800 Subject: Re: FreeBSD and the PowerPC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) From: John Martinez To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20030127165247.GA93399@grumpy.dyndns.org> Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, January 27, 2003, at 08:52 AM, David Kelly wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:44:08AM -0500, george donnelly wrote: >> [David Kelly commented on 1/26/03 6:41 PM] >> >>> On Sunday 26 January 2003 05:18 pm, Stacy Olivas wrote: >>> >>> Why should your MacFriend want to use FreeBSD or Linux when Darwin >>> and >>> MacOS X exist? >> >> maybe he doesn't want to get locked in to anything remotely closed >> source? >> maybe he'd rather not have to go thu apple to get to *bsd? > > Maybe somebody doesn't know anything about Darwin. While it would be nice to have a working version of FreeBSD for PPC, NetBSD, OpenBSD or Darwin are probably the other best choices. I still run Mac OS X on my PowerMacs, though. ;-) -john To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message