From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 17 9:40:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D878D11163 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 09:40:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr07.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA27753; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 10:52:39 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr07.primenet.com(206.165.6.207) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd027703; Wed Feb 17 10:52:35 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA15480; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 10:40:07 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199902171740.KAA15480@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Walnut Creek, Where Are You? To: brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu (Brett Taylor) Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 17:40:06 +0000 (GMT) Cc: brett@lariat.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Brett Taylor" at Feb 16, 99 08:16:57 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,389494,00.html IBM is > > announcing that it will work with not one but SEVERAL distributors of > > Linux, pre-installing their distributions on PCs. But NOT A WORD about > > FreeBSD! Hello, Walnut Creek.... Can you say, "missed opportunity" > > here? > > And it doesn't say so in this article, but I've read elsewhere that > they're doing this on PowerPC based servers. Not a lot we can do if we > don't have a PowerPC port. Plenty of us would be happy to do the work, if IBM loaned the hardware for a port. I rather expect NetBSD runs on it already, but if not, it would probably be necessary to have access to some documentation, though IBM has always been very public with documentation (the IBM Technical Reference had a BIOS source listing). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message