Re: FreeBSD and the PowerPC
[David Kelly commented on 1/26/03 6:41 PM] On Sunday 26 January 2003 05:18 pm, Stacy Olivas wrote: Greetings.. I have a question for the list.. I have a friend who is an avid Mac freak.. 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? -- george donnelly - http://zettai.net/ - We Love Newbies :) Zope Hosting - Dynamic Website Design - Search Engine Promotion Yahoo, AIM: zettainet - ICQ: 51907738 - e:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: FreeBSD and the PowerPC
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: Greetings.. I have a question for the list.. I have a friend who is an avid Mac freak.. 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. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] = The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: FreeBSD and the PowerPC
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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: FreeBSD and the PowerPC
On Sunday 26 January 2003 05:18 pm, Stacy Olivas wrote: Greetings.. I have a question for the list.. I have a friend who is an avid Mac freak.. Why should your MacFriend want to use FreeBSD or Linux when Darwin and MacOS X exist? -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] = The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: FreeBSD and the PowerPC
On Monday, January 27, 2003, at 10:18 AM, Stacy Olivas wrote: Greetings.. I have a question for the list.. I have a friend who is an avid Mac freak.. (yes, I know Avid is a video editing platform available on the mac.. :).. anyways, I've convinced him to try FreeBSD over say Linux, and he has a question about the PowerPC port of FreeBSD that is listed at: http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ppc.html The page is a little dated... does this still exist? Does it work? (P.S. When you reply, please include the CC addressee too, he's the one inquiring). TIA. -Stacy I don't know about the ppc port of FreeBSD but is he aware that with Mac OS X there is already BSD under the hood? :) Cheers...John To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: FreeBSD and the PowerPC
On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 18:18, Stacy Olivas wrote: Greetings.. I have a question for the list.. I have a friend who is an avid Mac freak.. (yes, I know Avid is a video editing platform available on the mac.. :).. anyways, I've convinced him to try FreeBSD over say Linux, and he has a question about the PowerPC port of FreeBSD that is listed at: http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ppc.html The page is a little dated... does this still exist? Does it work? (P.S. When you reply, please include the CC addressee too, he's the one inquiring). TIA. Well, Mac OS X is probably the best known FreeBSD based Unix on the PowerPC platform. It will run on 604 based Mac's using the Xpostofacto installer. I'm pretty sure the FreeBSD port to OS X is no longer current. Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: FreeBSD and the PowerPC
port of FreeBSD that is listed at: http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ppc.html Last modified: 2002/12/13 00:00:33 A month is dated? The page is a little dated... does this still exist? Does it work? Read the mailling list archives. The mailling list is as active as the other porting projects. -- Jeremy Faulkner http://www.gldis.ca To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
