Re: OT: BSD on G5 [Was: Re: Any Debian presence at MacWorld?]
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Luis Sanjuan wrote:
[...]
| 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
[...]
Having participated in testing on that port project for several months,
I can assure you that is nowhere near a release. Peter Grehan, the
poster of that message, is the main force behind that effort, and he was
out for a few months last year. If you want a stiff challenge of your
Mac hardware knowledge, give the FreeBSD install a go.
To give an idea of activity, here are message counts from the archives
for the FreeBSD PPC port for the past several months:
January 2005: 15 (and counting)
December 2004: 38
November 2004: 8 (Peter returns Nov. 30th)
October 2004: 19
September 2004: 42
August 2004: 66 (Peter leaves ~Aug. 26th)
There are some really sharp folks on that list, and I wish them the
best, but it is no realm for any novice or even intermediate at this point.
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Barry Hawkins
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