Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 02:38:03 -0800 From: Noah Pratt <npratt@mail.com> To: shoe latif <slatif@petrosys.com> Cc: Sven Bentlage <S.Bentlage@gmx.de>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Macintosh Message-ID: <3A1CF38B.D169550B@mail.com> References: <B63C684B.1D7%S.Bentlage@gmx.de> <3A19458F.97BEACB0@petrosys.com>
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Warning: precious little FreeBSD content The borrowed stuff in the MacOS X kernel (Darwin) came primarily from NeXT, which was in turn built on the Mach kerrnel. NeXT is where Steve Jobs went after his first stint at Apple, and Apple got all of the NeXT software when they got Jobs back. I'm not sure which one they purchased... NeXT hardware ran on Motorola's 68030 and 68040 CPUs, the same as the Macintosh models at that period of time. I don't know if any active development is being done to port FreeBSD to Apple hardware. However, NetBSD does run on both the 68K series and the PowerPC series Macs, and has done so since 1992 or so. http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/mac68k/ http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/ There's also Linux distro called Yellow Dog for Macintosh. I'm not an expert by any means, just a fan of Macintosh and Apple. (Gasp! Horror!) Well, a fan of the old Macs and the old Apple. My first computer was a 68000 powered Mac SE from 1988. I still use it from time to time... I still find Hypercard to be amazing in its ability to transform ordinary users into creative and productive programmers. Does anything like this exist for FreeBSD? Does anyone here know or care what I'm talking about? My current FreeBSD/Winders/WindersNT triple-boot system is a 700MHz Athlon with 8 times as much memory on the video card as the SE has for system memory (it's maxed at 4MB!), so you may all stop pitying me now. from http://www.apple.com/macosx/technologies/inside.html : <plagiarism> Mac OS X is Unix-savvy Mac OS X supports POSIX file system semantics and NFS file sharing, as well as standard services like telnet and FTP, allowing easy operability with UNIX systems and applications. The system=92s kernel =97 the part th= at does the heavy lifting =97 is based on Mach 3.0 from Carnegie-Mellon University and FreeBSD 3.2 (derived from the University of California at Berkeley=92s BSD 4.4-Lite), the most highly regarded core technologies from two of the most widely acclaimed OS projects of the modern era. We also took the famous Apache web server =97 which runs over half the websites on the Internet =97 and made it friendly enough to use on your desktop for personal file sharing. </plagairism> Sorry about the ramble, -Noah shoe latif wrote: > = > the new mac os x is supposed to have been built on freebsd. i think it'= s worth > checking out. last time i checked i think it was still in beta. i only = got to > play with it for a little while, i actually was wondering where you wou= ld make > kernel modifications like for natd, i couldn't find the kernel. then ag= ain i > wasn't looking too hard. > = > shoe > = > Sven Bentlage wrote: > = > > Hi! > > I=B4m a total newbie to FreeBSD. So some questions might have been as= ked > > before, but I=B4d still be grateful for answers- > > 1. is there any way to run FreeBSD on a Macintosh (iMac, G3 400 Mhz, = 64 MB > > RAM)? > > 2. Is there any support for ADSL? > > 3. Where can I find detailed explanations abot FreeBSD firewalls? And= can I > > run a FreeBSD system on a 486 PC? > > > > Thanks for answering my questions. > > > > Sven > = > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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