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#! rnews 1690 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!usenet From: Jennifer Fierro <pjfierro@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: BSD UNIX on a PowerMac?? Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 13:02:43 +0000 Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Lines: 12 Message-ID: <308CE3F3.3694@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu> References: <45uc7c$llu@bubba.nmsu.edu> <460fb0$5t8@orion.cc.andrews.edu> <461glf$9s7@news.iii.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: slip-29-16.ots.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b1 (Macintosh; I; PPC) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.sys.mac.misc:98422 comp.sys.mac.system:105753 comp.sys.mac.hardware:149964 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:7752 > The only Unix on PowerMac is from Tenon Systems. It's called MachTen. It > is BSD Unix running in a window as a Mac application. It's good. It's > easy to install, comes on a single CD, comes with X Windows which works > with no problems and has good support. Check they're web page. Sorry > that I don't have it handy but I guess it's www.tenon.com. Am I crazy or would it be possible to run Linux using SoftWindoze 2.0? The program emulates a 486 which is required by Linux but I don't know if there are any other hardware issues involved. I don't want to do anything fancy. I'm just interested in learning Unix. Any input anyone? I haven't bought SW yet but this might make it worthwhile.