From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 7 07:56:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA01210 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 07:56:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riverside.mr.net (root@Riverside.MR.Net [137.192.2.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA01199 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 07:56:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from galileo.mr.net by riverside.mr.net (8.7.5/SMI-4.1.R931202) id JAA10392; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 09:56:00 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from black@localhost) by galileo.mr.net (8.7.5/8.7.2) id JAA15548; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 09:55:59 -0500 (CDT) From: Ben Black Message-Id: <199608071455.JAA15548@galileo.mr.net> Subject: Re: Be Boxes? To: branson@widomaker.com (Branson Matheson) Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 09:55:58 -0500 (CDT) Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199608071340.JAA13966@garion.hq.ferg.com> from "Branson Matheson" at Aug 7, 96 09:40:29 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME7a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk bebox just coming out? i've been a registered developer for the bebox since last year. i have rather given up on freebsd ever being ported off of x86. i love it for firewalls and various network servers, but on other architectures it just isn't an option. oh well. Ben > > > Just saw somthing interesting that I thought I should ask about. > > There is a new arch comming around called BeBoxes that is based on > multiprocessor PowerPC Chips. ( http://www.be.com ) > > The Linux camp already has a port ready to go... I am wondering if anyone > here is looking at this? I realize that the NetBSD camp is probably more > acclimated to doing somthing like this... but if this idea catches on.. it > could be an upgrade path for our camp. > > -branson > > -- > ============================================================================= > Branson Matheson | Ferguson Enterprises | If Pete and Repeat were > System Administrator | W: (804) 874-7795 | sittin on a fence and Pete > Unix, Perl, WWW | branson@widomaker.com | fell off, who is left? >