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Date:      Mon, 27 Jan 2003 09:00:46 -0800
From:      John Martinez <rolnif@mac.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD and the PowerPC
Message-ID:  <E0E03F9A-3218-11D7-B9EE-0003937C0B34@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030127165247.GA93399@grumpy.dyndns.org>

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On Monday, January 27, 2003, at 08:52  AM, David Kelly wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:44:08AM -0500, george donnelly wrote:
>> [David Kelly commented on 1/26/03 6:41 PM]
>>
>>> On Sunday 26 January 2003 05:18 pm, Stacy Olivas wrote:
>>>
>>> Why should your MacFriend want to use FreeBSD or Linux when Darwin 
>>> and
>>> MacOS X exist?
>>
>> maybe he doesn't want to get locked in to anything remotely closed 
>> source?
>> maybe he'd rather not have to go thu apple to get to *bsd?
>
> Maybe somebody doesn't know anything about Darwin.


While it would be nice to have a working version of FreeBSD for PPC, 
NetBSD, OpenBSD or Darwin are probably the other best choices.

I still run Mac OS X on my PowerMacs, though. ;-)

-john


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