Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 22:20:13 -0400 From: Cory Kempf <ckempf@enigami.com> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Macintosh Message-ID: <v04003a10b159c7cb3ec9@[208.140.182.45]> In-Reply-To: <199804142355.SAA08696@nospam.hiwaay.net> References: Message from root@los0.math.rsu.ru of "Sun, 14 Apr 1996 13:17:43 %2B0400." <199604140917.NAA06864@los0.math.rsu.ru>
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>root@los0.math.rsu.ru writes: >> Please inform me whether FreeBSD is available for PowerPC Macintosh > >Wait for Rhapsody. A wider distributed pseudo release is due this >month. Maybe you can qualify. Public release to anybody is due late >this year. No, I don't know where to apply. I strongly suspect that you will need to be in the Apple developer program, which will cost you either $500 or $3500, depending on which level of access you want. You will then need to sign a NDA to get into the seeding program. FWIW, Rhapsody will likely not be a complete unix... any more than NeXT was. Specifically, X will most likely be left out. Also, Apple is repositioning Rhapsody as a "server" OS, as opposed to desktop. This may indicate Apple's intent to charge a price similar to that charged for other OSes (NT, BSDI, et al). Or it may mean that it will only run on 604 based systems. Or it may mean nothing. There is also some real strange brain dammage due to networking: BSD is sockets based. MacOS is streams based. Doign sockets on top of streams is fairly easy. There is a MacOS emulator (blue box) in Rhapsody. There is some wierdness down at a low level to support this. Also, Rhapsody will be Mach 2.5 based. Not sure how this will affect anything. MkLinux was Mach 3 based, and seemed very compatible with the intel versions, but (and this could be my imagination) it did seem much slower. +C -- Thinking of purchasing RAM from the Chip Merchant? Please read this first: <http://www.enigami.com/~ckempf/chipmerchant.html>; Cory Kempf Macintosh / Unix Consulting & Software Development ckempf@enigami.com <http://www.enigami.com/~ckempf/>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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