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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!bofh.dot!vyzynz!bofh.dot!newsfeed.concentric.net!winternet.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!news.thepoint.net!news1!not-for-mail From: root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Subject: Re: Mach Microkernel + FreeBSD + PowerMacs X-Nntp-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Message-ID: <4o0e1f$321@dyson.iquest.net> Sender: news@iquest.net (News Admin) Organization: John S. Dyson's Machine References: <960520191156-rrwood@io.org> <4nt1i4$5ah@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 01:12:15 GMT Lines: 26 In article <4nt1i4$5ah@agate.berkeley.edu>, Ben Cottrell <benco@ucsee.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: > >Actually, this is better suited to NetBSD than FreeBSD :-) As I understand >the distinction, NetBSD is an extension of the original CSRG efforts--it's >multiplatform and aims to provide a free UNIX to everyone--whereas FreeBSD >is an optimized BSD-like OS for the PC architecture only, and works better >than NetBSD on the PC architecture only. > Currently, I agree, but FreeBSD will be a limited multiplatform effort soon... (Limited in the sense that there might be 2-3 other platforms.) > >As a matter of fact, there has been a discussion of porting NetBSD to >the PowerMacs--I think the consensus is that it'll be easy, that there >has already been a port of NetBSD to the Mach microkernel, but that >dobody so far has really volunteered to take charge of the port. > There is also a port of FreeBSD to Mach -- Lites even has some very early FreeBSD filesystem code in it. Right now, for sure, NetBSD is farther along than EITHER FreeBSD or Linux in the multiplatform arena. John dyson@freebsd.org