Re: FreeBSD for Macs?
From: Scott Long (scottl_at_samsco.org)
Date: 03/05/05
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Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 15:44:15 -0700 To: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
Peter Jeremy wrote:
> 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.
>
FreeBSD/ppc is actually making good progress. There are instructions
for installing a custom build at:
http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/miniinst.txt
http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/miniinst.iso
It's not for the faint of heart, and it probably isn't as stable as the
other platforms, but it's a good start.
Scott
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