Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:59:57 -0400 From: Lucas Holt <luke@foolishgames.com> To: Brian McCann <bjm1287@ritvax.rit.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on a Mac G3? Message-ID: <B4A286CC-FB64-11D7-882A-0030656DD690@foolishgames.com> In-Reply-To: <007c01c38f41$6d379030$6500a8c0@garfield>
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There is a page on the freebsd website describing work on a PowerPC version, but it says they are almost ready to boot into Single user mood.. another words.. not done. It mentions that some of the code is in current, but doesn't really explain how you'd load it onto a mac, etc. Darwin has packages, but not a ports system from what i've read. You might as well use Mac OS X if you are going to use darwin since there is fink, and you get Java in OSX. I ran NetBSD on a sparc for some time. Its nice. I'm sure the PowerPC version is good as well. If I were you, I'd just pre-order Mac OS 10.3 and run that. You can't beat commercial apps and open source! At least X86 BSD users can usually run Linux software including games like Quake, etc. On Friday, October 10, 2003, at 11:16 AM, Brian McCann wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > This may be a bit off topic, but does anyone know of a "real", > current version of FreeBSD that will run on a G3 Mac? I've looked at > both Net & OpenBSD, but I'd rather stick with one OS for all my PCs. > I know, that Darwin is basically the same thing as FreeBSD and that > very little has changed...but one of the main reason I love FreeBSD > is because of the ports collection. Has anyone tried downloading the > ports collection on a Darwin system and tried building anything? > > Thanks, > - --Brian > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com>; > > iQA/AwUBP4bNNERPmxonqOz6EQKeowCfX30jr6LPZJT/RhBBzgdyALeJWqcAoLE7 > 7/2F4SebTPbAVlI4xzJ/zonF > =X5XT > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Lucas Holt Luke@FoolishGames.com ________________________________________________________ FoolishGames.com (Jewel Fan Site) JustJournal.com (Free blogging) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
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