Freebsd and my Ibook

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lil.topelil.tope
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in Mac Software edited January 2014
I wanna try freebsd, is there any distro's for mac machines?



thanks

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  • Reply 1 of 5
    serranoserrano Posts: 1,806member
    http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ppc.html



    Good luck, it's ancient.
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  • Reply 2 of 5
    bartobarto Posts: 2,246member
    FreeBSD for PowerPC isn't well maintained. It's a better bet to go NetBSD. Although, I could never get NetBSD to install on a G4 or a 7220 (fUx0r3d that machine by trying to boot NetBSD in OpenFirmware)



    Why would you even want to run FreeBSD though? What does it do that Mac OS X / Darwin doesn't?



    Barto
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  • Reply 3 of 5
    1337_5l4xx0r1337_5l4xx0r Posts: 1,558member
    netbsd apparently has pretty good support for PPC hardware. OpenBSD has weak support (bare minimum, no power saving, sleep, etc), linux has full support for PPC hardware (except Nvidia gfx cards).
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  • Reply 4 of 5
    bartobarto Posts: 2,246member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by 1337_5L4Xx0R

    (except Nvidia gfx cards).



    A footnote: It will run on nVidia cards, albiet unaccelerated (like X on the Pro, Go, Woah macs)



    Barto
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  • Reply 5 of 5
    ibrowseibrowse Posts: 1,749member
    Ah man, I thought the topic said "Freebasing with an iBook", sorry to interupt.
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