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NetBSD Ported to Motorola MVME PowerPC Boards

Posted by timothy on from the and-my-alarm-clock dept.

hubertf writes: "NetBSD/mvmeppc is a new port of NetBSD to the Motorola MVME PowerPC Single Board Computers. This was made possible through a donation by Gan Starling of two (plus one loaner) MVME160x boards so that a porting effort could be made. Due to NetBSD's highly portable architecture, the operating system was up and running multi-user after just two weeks worth of part-time effort. A NetBSD/mvmeppc specific mailing list has been set up for people to discuss any issues with running NetBSD on their MVME PowerPC boards, and a snapshot of NetBSD/mvmeppc is also available for anyone wishing to experiment with the new port. Steve Woodford is the NetBSD/mvmeppc port maintainer."

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  1. Re:Why? by T-Punkt · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well, you are a troll...

    Or you simple don't understand the article.

    Apple may provide a "perfectically good (yes i know not free) distro to the PPC" (I guess you mean Mac OS X) - but only for (not that old) Apple computers It won't run on anything else. And it probably will never.

    And honestly, Mac OS X is neither targeted nor suited for the kind of application this Motorola MVME PowerPC single board computer is designed for...

  2. Re:Why? by Listen+Up · · Score: 2, Informative


    Okay, whoever modded you up to +3 doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground. Apple makes a BSD based distribution called "Darwin" and it IS completely FREE. Porting this OS would make a helluva lot more sense than porting NetBSD to this platform. The only reason to do it with NetBSD would be to waste redundant effort making NetBSD work on yet another platform instead of taking excellent, existing technology and making that work instead.
    But, then I guess there is Linux, QNX, Windows, Solaris, etc. for Intel, so whatever, right?