Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:44:00 -0500 (CDT) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: dkelly@hiwaay.net Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-platforms@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD for the PowerMac? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971013004226.1032D-100000@shell.futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <199710121845.NAA05432@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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On Sun, 12 Oct 1997 dkelly@hiwaay.net wrote:
> If wanting Un*x on a PowerMac, I think the most likely solution will be
> to use BeOS or wait for Rhapsody. Both claim POSIX compliance and offer
> Un*x shells. The other advantage would be you can have your cake and
> eat it too, as you will have both Un*x and the native OS at the same
> time.
>
> Once Be and Apple provide the baseline, I'd hope for a port of all the
> good Un*x toys we all know and love. Similar to what was done for OS/2.
> Haven't heard any hints of an X for the new PowerMac OS's yet.
>
Last I heard Net/OPenBSD had support for PowerPC processors; it was a
little shaky, and had some problems with bootup at some points, but it
ran.
I dunno; look at their respective websites, www.{open|net}bsd.org.
> Only time will tell how well this works.
>
> --
> David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
> =====================================================================
> The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its
> capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
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