Re: What about other BSDs?

First, thanks to all who e-mailed me privately or responded publicly here.

I am in no way a *nix expert so I'm not going to try even half of your
suggestions (but, I'm also not entirely CLUI-phobic... I just like
stuff to work without a whole lot of effort (I am a Mac user after all
;)).

I get the sense from some of you that I ought to examine NetBSD and
FreeBSD. Do either come with the option to install X.org or XFree86?

Also, does OpenDarwin support HFS+. I never really considered that a
major issue since OS X can read ext2/3 and Linux can (generally) read
HFS/HFS+, but it might be nice to have the server OS running natively
on HFS+.

Perhaps I ought to let sleeping dogs lie since the computer (YDL 3.0.1
SMB, Appletalk, HTTP/WebDAV servers) is working quite nicely as is,
but I'm also feeling a touch adventurous.

Eric.

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 01:39:52 -0500, Winston Ford <[email protected]> wrote:
> We have multiple beige G3's running opendarwin7.2.1 and darwin7.0.1.
> I believe there is a way to user xpostfacto to install direct, but we
> cloned the boot drive from a g4 install and used os9 boot disk to
> rebuild desktop.
> 
> nice thing about using a darwin is that when developing in osx, you can
> usually push to darwin with no changes, where as paths will be
> different in linux and other BSD's which may require changing of config
> files.
> 
> one type of osx dev that we've not figured out how to push to darwin is
> java, where as I remember reading in forums about yellow dog running
> blackdown.  There are BSD's with java, but not on ppc.