Date: Wed, 15 Oct 97 08:58:40 -0400 From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@mlor.its.rpi.edu> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-platforms@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD for the PowerMac? Message-ID: <9710151258.AA00460@mlor.its.rpi.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971014215435.9017A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
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On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Ron G. Minnich wrote: > Hmmm, we have netbsd/ppc, linux/ppc, and I assume openbsd/ppp. > What does freebsd add? esp. when the last power-pc-based computers > have been designed? a) If you feel freeBSD/PPC has nothing to offer, then why bother running FreeBSD on Intel-ish chips? There's a lot more operating systems on Intel-ish chips than there are on PPC, so FreeBSD must have even less to offer there. b) the "last" PPC computers have not been designed yet. c) I, for one, would be quite interested in FreeBSD/PPC (assuming someone else does most of the work... :-). On Mon, 13 Oct 1997 dkelly@hiwaay.net wrote: > Hot rumor yesterday on http://www.macosrumors.com was that Motorola > and UMAX, unhappy with Apple's recent licensing about-face, were > each preparing separate take over attempts. At the same time > there is a move within Apple to merge or be bought out by Oracle > in order to prevent Motorola or UMAX from being able to swallow > them. > > Possibly the most interesting thing about that tidbit is today > that site has been unreachable from my work or home connections. If you check the MacInTouch site, they have a blurb saying that the macosrumours site is moving to a new ISP. So, they may be unreachable for a day or two. THis has nothing much to do with the rumour-of-the-day. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
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