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From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Subject: Re: freebsd for mac?
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Date: Fri, 2 Jun 1995 01:25:38 GMT
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In article <nunezp.1152453697A@barfly.tacom.army.mil>,
Patrick Nunez <nunezp@cc.tacom.army.mil> wrote:
FreeBSD isn not, but it's sibling, NetBSD is..
FreeBSD is aimed (at this time) only at the PC..
check out http://www.netbsd.org/

>A friend of mine told me that freebsd was available for the mac.  I've
>looked at a couple ftp sites and read the web page, but it appears
>that it is only available for PCs.  IS this true?  Is there an older
>version somewhere for the mac.
>
>I have a SE30 with 20Mb RAM and 150MB hard drive.  I want to run X in
>addition to UNIX.  I want to practice programming on my own time at 
>home.
>
>Any pointers?
>
>Patrick Nunez