[BUGS] BUGS Digest, Vol 12, Issue 8

[..I'd rather be coding ASM!]

There's actually other people like terrasoft selling PPC kit, not to 
mention bplan and genesi.

Example of the recent Terrasoft kit:

http://www.osnews.com/story/19856/Terra_Soft_Launches_Spiritual_PowerMac_G5_Successor

These things natively run linux so it'd be a documented with example
code plaform if you wanted to get into hacking BSD for it.

MMm.. VMS <3

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On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, bugs-request at bugs.au.freebsd.org wrote:

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> From: jonathan michaels <jlm at caamora.com.au>
> Subject: [BUGS] how to build a strong mulitmedia workstation
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>   greetings all,
>
>   i have a question to ask on behalf of a friend, he is competent in unix (the
>   one that was called isc v4 and teh whateverits called now, was sco v5ish, as
>   well as a smattering of (linux toys, his words) and vms development stufff).
>
>   the question that i was asked revolved around setting up  'the freebsd kernel
>   on a multi cpu powerpc box' .. i wasn't sure if he was asking about
>   tiger/leopard on a apple g5 box or building a freebsd powerpc box ??
>
>   also, i'm looking at doing much the same thing, that is to setup a multimedia
>   desktop and as far as i can see that means going to apple software but i am not
>   sure what kind of hardware to run underneath
>
>   is anybody here (in bugs) using apple ahrdware freebsd based tiger/leopard in a
>   more or less deadline based environments ?? muchcly appreciated by yours treuly
>   and a mr mark...
>
>   i suppose that i am asking are they as good as they are claimed to ne
>
>   most kind regards
>
>   jonathan
>
>

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