From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Oct 5 22:16:42 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 EC8E314E5F for ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 22:16:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co) Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co ([168.176.3.53]) by bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA34DA; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 00:15:32 -0400 Message-ID: <37FACEBE.CF43E093@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 23:23:26 -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: Kris Kennaway Cc: Greg Lehey , Narvi , 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 It seemed very improbable that someone in isolation could undertake such a task, but FWIW, someone in Atlanta told me the guy in question was not a perl script after all ... :-) I recall all this news are more than a month old...which OTOH is not too much, but there was a later posting that suggested another thing: I am unable to find it in FreeBSD-SMP (I sometimes visit those lists using egroups), but I THINK it was phk, while asking people not to whine about Matt Dillon's lack-of commit privs, that he mentioned that the 680xx effort was real. I don't care much about this particular port, but seeing FreeBSD on another platform (any platform) is always a good thing. cheers, Pedro. Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > >> That turned out to be a hoax, didn't it? > > > > > > REALLY ? It did sound strange, but even a core team member fell... > > > > What evidence did you have that it was a hoax? It sounded pretty > > plausible to me. > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=771119+773696+/usr/local/www/db/text/1999/freebsd-hackers/19990808.freebsd-hackers > > As far as I could tell from the discussion on -committers and -hackers, > no-one ever saw a copy of the alleged port. I'm quite prepared to stand > corrected on this, though! > > Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message