FreeBSD on a Mac G3?

[Brian McCann]

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Thanks to all.  Looks like it's going to be a "guess and test" to
find an OS I really like.  I'm probably eventually going to get
Panther when it comes out.  Since I work for a school...academic
price is nice and cheep! :)

Again, thanks to all.
- --Brian

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From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Paul Beard
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 6:23 PM
To: questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD on a Mac G3?


 
On Friday, October 10, 2003, at 09:09AM, Mykroft Holmes IV
<mykroft at explosive.mail.net> wrote:

>While there is a Ports system for Darwin/OS X, called GNUDarwin,
>avoid it, as it is notorious for breaking the basic OS install
>without asking.  

or you can use the DarwinPorts collection, which has Apple support
behind it (longtime FreeBSD users will recognize Jordan Hubbard is:
he's on the DarwinPorts team). 

>Fink is a better alternative, it's pretty much a port of the Debian
>package management system, with somewhat improved source handling.
>As it  dumps all downloaded software in /sw, it doesn't break the
>base install.  Very nifty. Works very well.

I used Fink for quite a while but it seemed to lose focus on
reliability. I moved to darwinports (which offers source code ports
and packages) and it seems to work just fine. 

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