From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 28 14:36:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from apoq.skynet.be (apoq.skynet.be [195.238.2.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E940937B401 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 14:36:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (dialup559.brussels2.skynet.be [195.238.25.47]) by apoq.skynet.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7F5A9B6A; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 23:35:52 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@195.238.1.45 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 23:30:29 +0100 To: Trevor Johnson From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Netbsd advances... Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 1:49 PM -0500 2000/11/28, Trevor Johnson wrote: > Benno Rice (benno@freebsd.org) is porting FreeBSD to PowerPC. From what > I've heard, Darwin is worth trying (see http://www.darwinfo.org). Of course, I would much prefer to support either Darwin or FreeBSD on PowerPC, but I'd also like to be using something that has some reasonable hope of running on older PCI PowerMacintosh computers (such as the 7200, based on the original PowerPC chip but lacking the OpenFirmware boot code), and I'd prefer to be using something that has some reasonable hope of being usable sometime in early 2001. I believe that FreeBSD on PowerPC fails one of these tests, while Darwin on PowerPC fails the other. However, I'd love to be corrected, if someone has appropriate information. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message