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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!nntp.uac.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!bofh.dot!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!li.net!jwc From: jwc@newshost.li.net (John W. Carbone) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Mach Microkernel + FreeBSD + PowerMacs Date: 21 May 1996 18:01:58 GMT Organization: LI Net (Long Island Network) Lines: 26 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4nt0en$3j5@linet06.li.net> References: <960520191156-rrwood@io.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: linet01.li.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Wasn't the orginal personality that CMU wrote Mach with BSD? If that was the case, would it not be even easier than the Linux/Mach effort was? Roy Wood (rrwood@io.org) wrote: : So, Apple and OSF have released a port of Linux to the PowerMac: : http://mklinux.apple.com/ : Basically, it sounds like standard Linux with some modifications to run : on top of a Mach microkernel. : I prefer FreeBSD to Linux, so I wonder how hard it would be to port over : FreeBSD to run on top of the microkernel, too. Thus far, I've used : FreeBSD only on x86 PC's, so I'm not even really aware of whether it : already has support for Mach or not-- anyone better informed have : anything to comment there? : Anyway, I'd be willing to get involved with working on this project as : part of the longterm plan for FreeBSD world domination. :-) Any other : takers? : -Roy