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From: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
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On Sat, 2005-Mar-05 09:24:42 -0900, Sam Cole wrote:
>I'm sort of a novice about different types of processors and operating
>systems other than Windows.  Is there a version of FreeBSD that will
>run on Apple's g4/g5 processors?

There is some work being done in -current (which will be released as
FreeBSD 6.x, probably next year) but I'm not sure what state it is in.

At this stage, the closest you'll get to FreeBSD on a g4 is Mac OS-X.

-- 
Peter Jeremy