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From: Nikolas May <gleaner@gol.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc
Subject: Re: PowerPC and *BSD
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 19:35:46 +0900
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jose nazario wrote:

> 
> 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.

Thanks for the response - I'm curious about running a cu-see server -
just for fun - has anyone does this on a Mac?

Also I see tenon have ported apache to the Macos as Webten - does it
work?

(sorry this is a bit off topic - if there si a group for this I'd be
obliged if someone could gently direct me to it)

Nick
> www.mklinux.apple.com
> www.tenon.com
> www.linuxppc.org
> 

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