NetBSD Ported to Motorola MVME PowerPC Boards

Posted by timothy on Monday March 4, 2002 @02:18AM 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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Re:Why? by T-Punkt · 2002-03-04 02:38 · 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...