At 1:31 PM -0500 1999/12/7, Dan Winship wrote:

>  More generally, the problem is that there just aren't that many people
>  doing serious development on port-macppc, so it's still rough around a
>  lot of edges.

	All I'm looking for is a 
firewall/NAT/router/apache/postfix/squid/Diablo box I can run here at 
home, where I can also play around with whatever programming stuff 
that interests me (including both systems and application 
programming).

	But if I'm going to have to work this hard to get only a 
semi-working platform, I'm starting to think I'll either take the 
486SX machine my Mom is trying to give away and run OpenBSD (it may 
be slow, but at least it will be secure), or LinuxPPC on the PCI 
PowerMac 7200/90 I've already got that I could devote to this task.


	I personally don't care at all for Linux, but it's really 
starting to look like it might be the only solution that wouldn't 
involve bringing another machine into the house.

	And here I thought that NetBSD might be my salvation, where both 
FreeBSD and OpenBSD have failed me.

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