Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 16:14:39 GMT From: aledm@pavilion.co.uk (Aled Morris) To: hackers@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Mac-FreeBSD (do they mean us?) Message-ID: <199511071614.QAA19187@deputy.pavilion.co.uk>
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In this month's (Nov 95) issue of LAN Magazine ("Britain's number one
Networking Magazine") an EMAP publication, there are several questions
regarding Linux in the Unix Q&A section. The one that caught my eye
went like this:
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Q Will Linux be available for the Macintosh in the forseeable future?
I'm a mac user and the only Unix around for the Mac platform seems
to be A/UX, which is rather expensive and doesn't seem to have been
updated for ages. I have ssen a port of FreeBSD but it is far from
complete, and I have read that A/UX is not to be developed any
further.
A As well as not being developed any further, A/UX is effectively a dead
product, though we have heard that Apple and IBM are clubbing together
to get IBM's AIX running on the Power Macintosh platform. We tried
the FreeBSD UNIX that you mention; however we found that it's nothing
like as nice as Linux, and it is pretty featureless (it also crashed
many of the machines we tried it on after only a few minutes). The bad
news is that the development of Linux for the Mac seems to have ground
to a halt for whatever reason - probably because the system was written
with the 80x86 architecture so much in mind and porting's proving hard.
Best thing to do is to keep your eyes and ears open for the Apple/IBM
effort - though beware, you'll probably find that after all this waiting
you'll need a Power Mac to run it on. Aside from this, however, I
believe MachTen is about to appear in PowerPC-native form for the
Macintosh.
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This is so amazingly unhelpful and inaccurate that I can't believe someone
gets paid to write it.
Anyone want to write a followup? The magazine can be contacted at:
LAN Magazine
EMAP Computing
Greater London House
Hampstead Road
London NW1 7QZ
England
Fax: +44 171 383 5578
Email: advisor.LAN@computing.emap.co.uk
Cheers
Aled
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