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On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Dustin Puryear wrote:
> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 12:35:00 -0500
> From: Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [brluglist] Any LinuxPPC/OSX/BSD/Mac geeks out there?
>
> FYI, there is a Mac group here in Baton Rouge. Can't remember the name
> though.
>
> Regards, Dustin
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Behalf Of John Hebert
> > Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 11:57 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [brluglist] Any LinuxPPC/OSX/BSD/Mac geeks out there?
> >
> >
> > I recently bought a used PowerMac 8500 and installed
> > Yellow Dog Linux (http://www.yellowdoglinux.com) on
> > it. YDL uses RPM and has lots of neato features like
> > YUP (YDL Updater), etc.
> >
> > I also read that Darwin (the BSD core of Mac OSX) now
> > runs on some PowerPC chips, including my 8500! So, I'm
> > going to attempt to install Darwin and later OSX on my
> > 8500.
> >
> > Which brings me to my question: are there any Mac
> > geeks on this mailing list? It's been a heck of a
> > while since I played with a Mac at length, but it
> > seems easy enough. I have a few questions, like: Can I
> > run some kinda video editing app like iMovie on MacOS
> > 8.0.1? Where would I download files? etc, etc.
> >
> > I'm hoping to generate more interest in Mac OSX in the
> > BRLUG, since it is UNIX at its core. The move by Apple
> > to an open source based kernel was one of the biggest
> > events in the last few years to support the open
> > source movement. I am very surprised that there hasn't
> > been more excitement about it in the open source
> > community. The PowerPC chip is very fast for the
> > price: I paid $100 for the PowerMac 8500 (128MB RAM,
> > 8GB ext drive) and monitor. I plan to make it a
> > development server running either Linux for PPC or
> > OSX.
> >
> > John Hebert
> >
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