On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 08:59:05AM -0700, Brian D. Horn wrote:
> >
> >Right, but as all of it has Apple proprietary hardware bits, 
> >documentation is hard to arrive at, and reading the Linux code that 
> >runs on those machines has its own hazards (namely, GPL/CDDL 
> >incompatibilities.)
>
> And despite all that we have been testing on an occasional basis on a G4 
> based tower Mac.  It "mostly"
> behaves.  But like Tom indicated, it is not our main focus, but it could 
> be someone else's!
> 
> Does anyone out there have the information necessary about the Mac hardware?

NetBSD and Linux both run on mac hardware, so it's not like this is impossible. 
:)

That being said, I might be able to drag one of the NetBSD developers over,
he's a useful chap. ;)

-brian
-- 
"Perl can be fast and elegant as much as J2EE can be fast and elegant.
In the hands of a skilled artisan, it can and does happen; it's just
that most of the shit out there is built by people who'd be better
suited to making sure that my burger is cooked thoroughly."  -- Jonathan 
Patschke

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