From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 15 05:59:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA10443 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 05:59:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from mail1.its.rpi.edu (root@mail1.its.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA10427; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 05:58:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gad@mlor.its.rpi.edu) Received: from mlor.its.rpi.edu (mlor.its.rpi.edu [128.113.24.92]) by mail1.its.rpi.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA21584; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 08:58:49 -0400 Received: by mlor.its.rpi.edu (NX5.67f2/NX3.0M) id AA00460; Wed, 15 Oct 97 08:58:41 -0400 Message-Id: <9710151258.AA00460@mlor.its.rpi.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.118.2) From: Garance A Drosehn Date: Wed, 15 Oct 97 08:58:40 -0400 To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-platforms@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD for the PowerMac? Reply-To: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu References: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id FAA10428 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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