From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 12 09:30:05 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5DD616A4CF for ; Sun, 12 Sep 2004 09:30:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from oxymail.org (littre-2-81-57-238-156.fbx.proxad.net [81.57.238.156]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7221A43D31 for ; Sun, 12 Sep 2004 09:30:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jade@oxymail.org) Received: from localhost (oxymail.org [192.168.3.100]) by oxymail.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DAD11723A15 for ; Sun, 12 Sep 2004 09:30:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from 192.168.3.20 ([192.168.3.20]) by oxymail.org (IMP) with HTTP for ; Sun, 12 Sep 2004 05:30:03 -0400 Message-ID: <1094981403.4144171bad11f@oxymail.org> Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 05:30:03 -0400 From: jade@oxymail.org To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: http://www.usinglinux.org X-WebMail-Company: http_//www.oxymail.org X-Originating-IP: 192.168.1.40 Subject: FreeBSD on Xserve ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 09:30:06 -0000 Hello, I'm planning on buying an Apple Xserve G5 bi-processor. I know mac os X (server) is running on it and that's a modified version of freebsd. So here are my questions : - I've been using freebsd for a while now and if I buy the Xserve I'd very much like to replace mac os X by a freebsd 5.2 / 5.3 if this is possible. My motivations are that I want to make intensive use of Jails and Mandatory Access Control (MAC). I'd also like to recompile the whole thing with stack protection (if possible). Yet I have no idea if Mac os X can run jails, and MAC (anyone an idea here ?), but if not, I'd switch to Freebie. So in general : - has anyone experienced the change - would it be difficult to replace OS X by FreeBSD ? - would it be possible to run these options (Jails,MAC,stack protection) on this hardware ? Thanks for the hints, because I'm a little lost. By, Jade. ------------------------------------ Free Mail at http://www.oxymail.org