Which Distro?

[freebsd-questions]

What's wrong with running OSX/Darwin?
You wouldn't run DOS on a SGI Ony4 would you?

just my 2 cts
Arno


On 14 sep 2004, at 05:45, shane mullins wrote:

> I am not a Mac user by any means, but I think FreeBSD supports newer 
> Macs.
> http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ppc.html
>
> Shane
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Huff" <roberthuff at rcn.com>
> To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 11:34 PM
> Subject: Which Distro?
>
>
>>
>> Viper writes:
>>
>>>  I am going to buy a Mac g4 soon, and I am thinking
>>>  about turning it into a server. I asked around and
>>>  everybody rocommended FreeBSD to me. So what distro of
>>>  FreeBSD would I use for a mac computer?
>>
>> 1) There is no FreeBSD port for the PPC.  (Or rather, there is,
>> not usable as far as I know.)  If you insist on running pure-strain
>> UNIX try NetBSD.
>> 2) Many programs which run on FreeBSD have a version for OS X.
>>
>>
>> Robert Huff
>>
>>
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