Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 20:37:40 -0800 (PST) From: wellsian <wellsian@caffeine.com> To: Jim Mock <jim@luna.cdrom.com> Cc: Dino Memic <sdm1@home.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PowerPC Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003062009080.19237-100000@boris.netgate.net> In-Reply-To: <20000306200433.A29817@luna.cdrom.com>
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If you heard of it being done then you probably heard about people trying FreeBSD on a wintel emulator, like VirtualPC or SoftWindows. Those work to varying degrees but they're emulators and will be much slower than a similarly powered intel box. There was a recent thread here about troubles running 3.4 on one of the emulators even though the vendor claimed to support FreeBSD. I'd look for success stories before shelling out for anything. On the less pessimistic side, I have seen (long ago) people running RedHat, Windows98, and NT, all on a Mac with one or another emulator or intel coprocessor card (ala Orange Micro). So it can be done, but many would ask if it's worth the effort. ~$350 makes a darn nice intel box for messing around and you can install natural versions of whatever. Dave On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Jim Mock wrote: > On Mon, 06 Mar 2000 at 18:00:41 -0800, Dino Memic wrote: > > Heard of freeBSD for PowerPC Apple hardware, but couldn't find > > anything on your site about that? > > You heard wrong :-( > > > Is it supported or not? > > No, at least not yet. You might want to take a look at NetBSD > <http://www.NetBSD.org/>; or OpenBSD <http://www.OpenBSD.org/>; though. > > - jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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