Re: What about other BSDs?

There is a effort to port FreeBSD to the PPC but AFAIK it isn't at a 
usable level yet.

Thanks,
Edward

Roger Ivie wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Eric Dunbar wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
>
> NetBSD comes with XFree86. I'm not certain quite what version they're
> using (all I now is I gots winders and my .twmrc that I've been using
> for years works fine).
>
> AFAIK FreeBSD doesn't support the PowerPC. I'd be happy to learn that
> I'm wrong. Hmm, I see there's a PowerPC port after all, but it's only
> supporting New World macs. That leaves out our Beige G3s.
>
> OpenBSD also looks like it's only supporting New World macs.
>
> And I just want to make certain you've taken a look at:
>
>        http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/models.html#g3v1
> and    http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/models.html#g3v2
>
> I'm not saying don't try it, I'm just saying that here there be dragons.