Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:34:55 -0400
From:      Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Which Distro?
Message-ID:  <16710.26335.954164.380017@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040914032740.32133.qmail@web52705.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20040914032740.32133.qmail@web52705.mail.yahoo.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

Viper writes:

>  I am going to buy a Mac g4 soon, and I am thinking
>  about turning it into a server. I asked around and
>  everybody rocommended FreeBSD to me. So what distro of
>  FreeBSD would I use for a mac computer?

	1) There is no FreeBSD port for the PPC.  (Or rather, there is,
not usable as far as I know.)  If you insist on running pure-strain
UNIX try NetBSD.
	2) Many programs which run on FreeBSD have a version for OS X.


			Robert Huff




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?16710.26335.954164.380017>