From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 5 23:28:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles549.castles.com [208.214.165.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 325EA14D20 for ; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 23:28:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA00424; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 23:21:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199908060621.XAA00424@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: James Howard Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: m68k Support in FreeBSD (old thread) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 05 Aug 1999 23:17:34 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 23:21:47 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > website (http://www.freebsd.org/~green/FreeBSD-68k.txt). In about two > > > weeks I'll have a spare Macintosh IIsi and would like to have a run at > > > FreeBSD on it. So, to the point, where can I get it? :) > > > > I'd say that's a question for Grant Stockly, the person mentioned in > > green's web-cited message. It's certainly not part of FreeBSD and > > whether it ever will be is a matter still subject to debate. > > Prior to posting to -hackers, I had emailed him, I tried again after > receiving this message and again, no response. (I used gussie@alaska.net) > Is there a better way to contact this individual? Does anyone have a copy > of the port? I've researched this guy a bit more, and I have to say I think it was a hoax. > I really don't want to have to install NetBSD on this Mac :) Uh, MacBSD is actually pretty nice. Alan Briggs and team have done a really good job of keeping it up-to-date and functional. If I had to pick a platform to run NetBSD on for reference, the 68k Mac would feature high on the list (probably after the hp300, but that's another story). -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message