From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 1 14:29:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from antsclimbtree.com (dsl-64-130-38-189.telocity.com [64.130.38.189]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E356D37B416 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 14:29:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.101] (adsl-66-122-112-171.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [66.122.112.171]) by antsclimbtree.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g31MTVh32941; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 14:29:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@antsclimbtree.com) User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.0.3 Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 14:28:59 -0800 Subject: Re: freebsd for G4 power pc From: Mark Edwards To: miles , Rod Brookes Cc: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG on 4/1/02 11:57 AM, miles at mylasticposse@mac.com wrote: > > On Sunday, March 31, 2002, at 10:50 PM, Rod Brookes wrote: > >> Hi >> Could you please inform me or the correct version of freebsd to buy for >> a G4 ppc macintosh? >> >> Regards >> Rod Brookes >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Well, you could always use OS X, it isn't purely FreeBSD but most of the > stuff seems to be there when I use my Powerbook. Otherwise, to the best > of my knowledge, NetBSD is the one that you would be looking for. I am > not sure, off the top of my head, whether or not they have video drivers > for everything newer or not. Yellowdog linux might be something to take > a look at as well, as a linux alternative. I liked their last version > quite a bit. Miles Isn't FreeBSD 5.x going to be available for PowerPC? I think it says that on the web site. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message