From owner-freebsd-ppc Thu May 23 11:39:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mail.thelbane.com (dsl-209-87-101-182.constant.com [209.87.101.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 35BFE37B42F for ; Thu, 23 May 2002 11:38:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 3715 invoked from network); 23 May 2002 18:38:45 -0000 Received: from bergstrom36.thelbane.com (HELO ?10.0.1.4?) (10.100.150.36) by shalmaneser-private.thelbane.com with SMTP; 23 May 2002 18:38:45 -0000 From: Timothy Knox To: Subject: Re: Inquriy to Freebsd availability for Macs Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 13:34:38 -0500 Message-Id: <20020523183447.3540@10.100.150.10> In-Reply-To: <3CE952CB.A96E75DE@pantherdragon.org> References: <3CE952CB.A96E75DE@pantherdragon.org> X-Mailer: CTM PowerMail 3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Somewhere on Shadow Earth, Darren Pilgrim wrote: >Jason Chan wrote: >> >> I guess i'm signing up to your mailing list for updates on FreeBSD being >> available to Mac users. I'm begining to really dread this infernal Mac OS. >> Currently i am running my webserver on FreeBSD 4.5. >> >> Can't wait for the mac edition of FreeBSD > >Right now the PPC port of FreeBSD is still preliminary, though it's >slated for inclusion (in what form I don't know) in 5.0-RELEASE. As >far as real, running BSD OSen for Macs, there's NetBSD and OpenBSD. >Also, there's also Mac OS X, with which you can get to a shell and thus >have a BSD-type OS on the Mac that was written for the Mac. You can >also use X and run the wm of your choice. Specifically, use Darwin which is the Mach/ FreeBSD port for Apple Macs. -- Timothy Knox -- "...much of the new magic is too baroque and complex for the likes of me. I like magic that does something, and doesn't sit around congratulating itself with how stylish it is." -- Joel Rosenberg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ppc" in the body of the message