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Date:      Tue, 28 Nov 2000 13:49:56 -0500 (EST)
From:      Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>
To:        Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Netbsd advances...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.4.21.0011281345250.19749-100000@blues.jpj.net>
In-Reply-To: <v04220814b649ab441670@[195.238.1.121]>

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> 	Excellent.  Anybody know if it is now useable on older PCI 
> PowerMac hardware, such as the 7200?  I'd much rather use this thing 
> as a *BSD server than to let it sit and gather dust, which is 
> basically what it's doing right now.
> 
> 	I could spend money and get a logic board upgrade to something 
> that would let me drop in a G3 or G4 chip, but even then I probably 
> still wouldn't be able to run MacOS X, and for that kind of money I 
> might as well get a brand-new machine anyway.

Benno Rice (benno@freebsd.org) is porting FreeBSD to PowerPC.  From what
I've heard, Darwin is worth trying (see http://www.darwinfo.org).
-- 
Trevor Johnson
http://jpj.net/~trevor/gpgkey.txt



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