From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Oct 5 18: 7: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (bachue.usc.unal.edu.co [168.176.3.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9551714CE6 for ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 18:07:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co) Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co ([168.176.3.32]) by bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA327C; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 20:06:31 -0400 Message-ID: <37FA47E8.DE86C509@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 13:48:08 -0500 From: "Pedro Fernando Giffuni" Organization: Universidad Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Narvi Cc: Kris Kirby , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Porting FreeBSD to the Mac (68K or PPC) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Actually, there was also a recent 68x port somewhere, look in the -hackers archives...somewhere. cheers, Pedro. Narvi wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Kris Kirby wrote: > > > It wasn't that long ago that I began to think about the fact that Apple > > had contacted the FreeBSD folks (-core, I think) about including some > > parts into Mac OS X. For some reason, I thought about the possiblity of > > porting FreeBSD to the "Mac" platform and was suddenly enlightened. > > However, if Mac OS X doesn't run on 68K machines, I see no reason why we > > can't ask for a little help in porting... > > > > Of course, I'm one to speak. The only Mac I own doesn't work. > > Look in the archives of FreeBSD-sparc on when (and how) to ask a > commercial entity for help. > > The demand for freebsd that runs on 68x machines is probably low to very > low. Especially has NetBSD has been available for some time and FreeBSD > doesn't (AFAIK) support VME yet. > > > -- > > Kris Kirby > > > > ------------------------------------------- > > TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message