Re: FreeBSD on PPC (G4)

2007-05-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

On 25/05/07, Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On Fri, 25 May 2007 08:08:25 -0500
Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 forgive my foul language, but linux-ppc works like a charm.

Thanks Jonathan :)
well, it is what it is, nothing wrong in stating it :)

have you tried NetBSD? I rather not stay too close to the penguin... again,
this may be for the kids, so edubuntu may be worth a try.


While NetBSD and FreeBSD share an ancestry (and
still borrow from one another), at the admin level they
are quite different.  It's nearly as difficult a transition as
learning Debian or Gentoo* weirdness.



*Not really.  /usr/ports and /usr/pkgsrc are both fairly
like bolt-action rifles: simple and effective.  portage is
like SDI: it was really never going to work, but it scared
the crap out of NPR and the Soviets.

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Re: FreeBSD on PPC (G4)

2007-05-25 Thread Jonathan Horne 
On Friday 25 May 2007 06:45:36 Norberto Meijome wrote:
 Hi guys and gals,
 I've got a PowerMac G4 model M8570 with OSX. I would like to give one of
 the OSS versions of BSD a try on this machine.

 The NetBSD page for the ppc port seems to indicate better support than
 FreeBSD's, though I'd prefer FBSD.

 Does anyone know how well would it actually work ?

 thanks!
 _
 {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome


I too have a G4 (cube), and i try from time to time to get freebsd installed 
on it.  current state of affairs last i tried, was the the ppc sysinstall was 
not able to write changes to a partition table (ie, cannot remove old and 
then recreate new) partitions.  also, the boot loader is a bit screwy, and i 
decided i would try again later when things worked more like they do on i386.

http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ppc.html

forgive my foul language, but linux-ppc works like a charm.

cheers,
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Re: FreeBSD on PPC (G4)

2007-05-25 Thread Norberto Meijome 
On Fri, 25 May 2007 08:08:25 -0500
Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 forgive my foul language, but linux-ppc works like a charm.

Thanks Jonathan :) 
well, it is what it is, nothing wrong in stating it :)

have you tried NetBSD? I rather not stay too close to the penguin... again,
this may be for the kids, so edubuntu may be worth a try.

cheers,

_
{Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome

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