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Hi Nigel,

>     I'm just wondering whether a port of FreeBSD 5.2.1 on PPC is in the
> works?

  Yes, it's in the works, but it isn't a tier-1 platform so isn't
included in general releases.

> I've checked the ports pages for PPC and the latest news was 2 years
> ago.

  That's in the process of being fixed...

> If not do you have any recommendations for a BSD project working on
> BSD? Thanks

  Both NetBSD and OpenBSD have official releases for PPC.

later,

Peter.