Re: FreeBSD for Macs?

From: Peter Jeremy (PeterJeremy_at_optushome.com.au)
Date: 03/05/05

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    To: Sam Cole <masjeloc@gmail.com>
    
    

    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.

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    Peter Jeremy
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