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From: kenn@eden.rutgers.edu (Ken Nakata)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: freebsd for mac?
Date: 1 Jun 1995 14:38:58 -0400
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nunezp@cc.tacom.army.mil (Patrick Nunez) writes:
>A friend of mine told me that freebsd was available for the mac.

No, that's *Net*BSD, not FreeBSD.

>I have a SE30 with 20Mb RAM and 150MB hard drive.  I want to run X in
>addition to UNIX.  I want to practice programming on my own time at 
>home.

NetBSD/mac68k (aka MacBSD) will run fine on your SE/30.  However,
system administration won't be trivial; be armed with a good sysadmin
book.

>Any pointers?

Any of NetBSD mirror sites should carry MacBSD.

Ken
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Ken Nakata <kenn@{eden,remus}.rutgers.edu>  | opinions expressed do not reflect
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey | those of the university *at all*