Subject: Re: FYI -- Linux for PowerMac (fwd)
To: Bill Studenmund <skippy@macro.stanford.edu>
From: None <kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 02/12/1996 00:14:50
> 
> On Wed, 7 Feb 1996, Matt Ragan wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I'd personally like to see NetBSD get onto a CHRP-compliant system.  I'm
> > not a fan of MacOS, AIX, NT, Solaris, or Linux, and I'd like to get a
> > real OS on one of the boxes we're putting our chips in.  If anyone is
> > willing to seriously commit to getting NetBSD ported to a (non-Mac) PowerPC 
> > system, I'd be willing to try to get some resources coughed up for the 
> > project.  I don't know what, if anything, I'll be able to do, but I'll
> > make my best effort.
> 
> The Mac68k list has been making noises about this for a while. Allen 
> Briggs, mac68k's port maintainer, got together with some of the ppc/Linux 
> folks, and started OpenMac, an effort to get info to port free unix to 
> Mac's. As next-gen macs == CHRP, we're interested in it. For more info, 
> look at: http://puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us/index.html
> 

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