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#! rnews 2250 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!europa.clark.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news-in-east.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!202.243.48.20!news.gol.com!not-for-mail 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 Organization: http://www.kyushu.com/gleaner.html Lines: 36 Message-ID: <3397E7FF.6F0F@gol.com> References: <EB3oDx.H7B@nonexistent.com> <33957788.BDA@gol.com> <5n6ek2$b6r@alexander.INS.CWRU.Edu> Reply-To: gleaner@gol.com NNTP-Posting-Host: tc-1-092.fukuoka.gol.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Macintosh; I; PPC) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc:134 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 > >