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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