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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!feeder.chicago.cic.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.new-york.net!nonexistent.com!not-for-mail From: Nathan Dorfman <nathan@senate.org> Subject: PowerPC and *BSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: Email abuse@news2.new-york.net if this posting is inappropriate Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Senate Industries Message-ID: <EB3oDx.H7B@nonexistent.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: 865173811 21682 nathan [204.141.125.38] X-Nntp-Posting-Host: senate.org Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 14:01:33 GMT Lines: 9 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc:120 Hi everyone! I'd recently read that a PowerPC processor is faster than a PPro of equal MhZ, and can be obtained for less? I thought it would be fun to try out a less popular architecture (like a pioneer thing ;>) but was wondering if anyone has had any experience with UNIX on a Mac. The things that concern me most are native binaries, will I still be able to run x86 Linux/FreeBSD binaries like I can on a Pentium with FreeBSD? Also, what about X, is there a good X server that supports the various Mac graphics cards and monitors, like Xfree or even AX/MetroX? Please reply via e-mail if possible. Thanks!