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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in3.uu.net!128.230.129.106!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!howland.erols.net!gatech!usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu!lpoly.bioc.cwru.edu!jose From: jose@lpoly.bioc.cwru.edu (jose nazario) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc Subject: Re: PowerPC and *BSD Date: 5 Jun 1997 13:23:14 GMT Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH (USA) Lines: 38 Message-ID: <5n6ek2$b6r@alexander.INS.CWRU.Edu> References: <EB3oDx.H7B@nonexistent.com> <33957788.BDA@gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lpoly.bioc.cwru.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc:128 Nikolas May (gleaner@gol.com) wrote: : Nathan Dorfman wrote: : > 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 : actually - if you can post to the group or post to me as well I would : appreciate it as I run a PPC Mac and would be very interestedin the : experiences of anyone else who is running unix on this platform i run mklinux on a powermac. an 8500/120, powered by a 604 running at 120 MHz. its runs decently fast, compares well to an R4400 SGI in most things except OpenGL (no hardware accel). has a few limitations yet (still DR2.1) but is solid enough for most workstation work. x86 binaries wont work on it (different machine code) but most stuff compiles just fine or is sufficiently documented to make porting easy with some minor patches. i have also run MachTen, a BSD implementation that runs atop the MacOS. too entirely slow for workstation use, decent for server side stuff (ie cheap mail, web, ftp services with full UNIX implementation). Also I tried linux-pmac, butfound it to be too much of a hack to be worth my time (RPM's broke, the X server sucked for me with 4MB VRAM, kernel's du-jour, etc) for my uses. it has solid implementations of shared libs, ha serial and floppy support and is a touch faster. www.mklinux.apple.com www.tenon.com www.linuxppc.org jose nazario