old world machines

Peter Grehan grehan at freebsd.org
Mon Mar 28 17:24:14 PST 2005


> I'm wondering if anyone has ran FreeBSD/PPC
> successfully on old world machines?  I have a PMac
> 9600/350 I want to use for a network gateway and I'd
> prefer to run FreeBSD over what I have now in YDL 1.2
> or upgrading to a newer version of YDL.  I don't
> necessarily need an X server, matter fact would rather
> just do without it.

  It only runs on NewWorld machines. It would be a helluva lot of work 
to do an OldWorld port, though technically possible.

later,

Peter.


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