On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:

> > NetBSD runs on a lot of machines.  It doesn't technically "support" any
> > machines at all, beyond help on mailing lists.  Mac OS X also runs on a
> > lot of machines, but it "supports" most G3 and G4 machines.  A lot of
> > people run OS X on older machines.  When things don't work, though, you're
> > pretty much on your own, beyond help on mailing lists.  :-)
> 
> I was under the impression that Mac OS X (or the software version of
> the Mac OS ROM?) was hamstrung such that it wouldn't run on (say)
> PowerComputing machines. Is that not true?

You have to recompile the kernel, IIRC, since there are drivers missing. 
Otherwise, it should work, I think, with Unsupported UtilityX.  Mac OS X
doesn't use the Mac OS ROM.  Now I'm not saying classic will work, since
that does use the ROM file.  No idea on that one.


> At any rate, my point was NetBSD will runs on more Apple hardware
> than Mac OS X does right now if you take a few moments to understand
> how to install it, while there is simply no way to run Mac OS X on
> (say) my old Performa 636. This, perhaps, is wheat better for
> netbsd-advocacy's mill, though. :^>

:-)


Later,
David

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