OT: BSD on G5 [Was: Re: Any Debian presence at MacWorld?]
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 08:27:30PM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote:
> >I'm starting out on a PowerMac dual G5. It comes pre-formatted with the
> >OS, and I'll probaly reformat it to my liking, but I am wondering how I
> >can set up the partitioning. I want to use various flavors of Linux
> >(YDL, gentoo, and debian, maybe knoppix) and FreeBSD.
> >
>
> a little off topic but im not sure how function freebsd is on
> powerpc. you will definately have better luck with openbsd
> and netbsd.
>
May be, however, no BSDs for G5 is currently available, AFAIK:
http://openbsd.org/macppc.html#status
http://netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/models.html
> freebsd is traditionally focused on intel chips and high
> performance thereon (fair enough), openbsd security, netbsd
> portability.
>
It might be changing. See, for example, this post in which
FreeBSD developer P. Greham has recently announced a miniinst
iso of FreeBSD for ppc:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ppc/2004-December/000771.html
> that doesnt mean that they ignore security or performance
> but thats the way they want to focus their projects. and
> good on them. we can all learn from eachother.
>
> as for different flavours of linux, its all just linux
> with different installers, init and control scripts and
> possbily different package management. i just stick with
> debian - but im like that.
>
> >-- Joaquin
> >
> >PS - forgive me if this is in HTML. I don't know how to shut that off
> >in Thunderbird.
>
> tools -> account settings -> composition{..}
>
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