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Hi Mark,

> I am curious about the status of this project - the official page does 
> not seem to have been updated for a while.
> 
> I am interested in running Freebsd on my ~1999 ibook, any idea on how 
> close this might be?

  Check out the -ppc archive from a few weeks back:

http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/archive/2003/freebsd-ppc/20031026.freebsd-ppc.html

  I do most of my testing on a '99 iBook, so it should work OK module
the keyboard issue outlined in the tarball email.

later,

Peter.