Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 01:41:44 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Simon Dick <simond@irrelevant.org> Cc: Roger Davidson <rd787@home.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: processor compatability Message-ID: <20020118014144.B30632@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20020118090301.GC448@irrelevant.org>; from simond@irrelevant.org on Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 09:03:01AM %2B0000 References: <002a01c19fac$26606f50$22142518@cn992270a> <20020118090301.GC448@irrelevant.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 09:03:01AM +0000, Simon Dick wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 06:10:26PM -0500, Roger Davidson wrote: > > > > Is the (Apple) Motorola processor more "BSD friendly" than Intel/AMD, > > vice-versa, or no real difference? > > FreeBSD only works on x86 processors, so for FreeBSD the answer would be > no. Well, it's not only x86 thesedays; alpha has been working well for several years, IA64 and Sparc64 ports are running multiuser, and there's a PPC port which is in its initial stages. For running BSD on PPC today, though, NetBSD, OpenBSD or Darwin are your only choices. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8R+3YWry0BWjoQKURAuLUAKCzdIIh7c1okblr4bVz2aUqJNxFowCffIIE mrtt2zFMzX7g/UdxjpTLK2E= =38NA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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