FreeBSD on a Mac G3?

Stephen Hilton nospam at hiltonbsd.com
Fri Oct 10 14:21:42 PDT 2003


On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 14:09:39 -0700
Kevin Stevens <Kevin_Stevens at pursued-with.net> wrote:

> > On Friday, October 10, 2003, at 11:16  AM, Brian McCann wrote:
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> >> 	This may be a bit off topic, but does anyone know of a "real",
> >> current version of FreeBSD that will run on a G3 Mac?  I've looked at
> >> both Net & OpenBSD, but I'd rather stick with one OS for all my PCs.
> >> I know, that Darwin is basically the same thing as FreeBSD and that
> >> very little has changed...but one of the main reason I love FreeBSD
> >> is because of the ports collection.  Has anyone tried downloading the
> >> ports collection on a Darwin system and tried building anything?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> - --Brian
> 
> I believe 10.3 is going to introduce a "blessed" ports system, which 
> I'd imagine would immediately be adopted by Darwin.  Just FYI.

I have been following the darwinports at opendarwin.org list for quite 
a while, and if this is so, then it is a pretty tightly held secret.
Any reason to believe otherwise?

Regards,

Stephen Hilton
nospam at hiltonbsd.com


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