From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 14 20: 0:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-gw6.pacbell.net (mail-gw6.pacbell.net [206.13.28.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C1AB14FE6 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 20:00:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from danestad@pacbell.net) Received: from pacbell.net (adsl-216-102-67-27.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.102.67.27]) by mail-gw6.pacbell.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA10475; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 19:59:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <378D4E8A.9F8838E1@pacbell.net> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 19:59:23 -0700 From: Doug Anestad X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rperkins@paso.wpafb.af.mil Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freeBSD on Mac Quarda 900? References: <852567AE.0062A267.00@paso.wpafb.af.mil> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG There is no FreeBSD for Macintosh hardware. However, here are some Unix/Linix/BSD OSes for macintosh hardware: NetBSD http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/mac68k/ (68k) http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/ (ppc) OpenBSD http://www.openbsd.com/mac68k.html (68k) http://www.openbsd.com/powerpc.html (ppc) MkLinux http://www.mklinux.org/ LinuxPPC http://www.linuxppc.org/ Debian http://www.debian.org/ports/m68k/ (68k) http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/ (ppc) Doug rperkins@paso.wpafb.af.mil wrote: > > I am looking into the freeBSD software, I am a complete novice in the Unix world, my question is will this OS run on an old Mac Quadra 900? I do not own the system yet, a person I work with is giving it to me, and since I do not use Mac's that much I thought that this would be a good chance to run a Unix os on older hardware. Please let me know if I can and if I should pursue this. I do have a pc that runs Winblowz 98 bloatware,( I will be honest tho, it does ok and it is easy for my wife and kids to use) on an 333 Celeron. I have considered dual booting this machine and I will once I add a 2nd harddrive. But I would like to take advantage of the MAc and not waste it. > > Bob Perkins > Contractor, Applied Sciences Corporation > PIXS SYS/OP > Tel: (937) 255-2837 DSN 785-2837 > Fax: (937) 656-7193 DSN 986-7193 > Email: perkinr@paso.wpafb.af.mil > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message