From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 20 15:14:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from donkeykong.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (donkeykong.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EA3537B4D7 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 15:14:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from qix.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (smtp@qix.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.152]) by donkeykong.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/4.3-mailhub) with ESMTP id SAA29810; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 18:14:17 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (timcm@localhost) by qix.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/5.1-client) with ESMTP id SAA29299; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 18:14:17 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 18:14:17 -0500 (EST) From: Tim McMillen X-Sender: timcm@qix.gpcc.itd.umich.edu To: Steve Leibel Cc: Lava Technical Support , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about Apple Macintosh In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well it appears there are actually some people working on porting FreeBSD to the powerpc. There is even a mailing list http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/archive/2000/freebsd-ppc/ but it has VERY few messages in it. So it seems progress is not too far along. It's obviously only something for hackers right now. So someday in the future perhaps. But NetBSD www.netbsd.org has current support for G3,G4 and such. Also OpenBSD www.openBSD.org has a pretty new port for it. Tim On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Steve Leibel wrote: > At 3:54 PM -0500 11/20/00, Lava Technical Support wrote: > > > >Do you expect to have support for Apple G3 or G4 Macintosh machines > >in the future? > > > > > The next major release of the Mac operating system, MacOS X, is based > on FreeBSD. > > Check out this survey article: > > http://www.salon.com/tech/review/2000/11/17/hubbard_osx/index.html > > Steve > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message