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    FreeBSD on PowerPC: anyone intending to use it, please respond in the ticket

    There has been discussions regarding retaining support for 32-bit platforms, including PowerPC (G4), in FreeBSD upstream. It may be helpful to respond in this ticket, if anyone considers FreeBSD useful or intends to use it on PowerPC Macs...
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    FireWire bus bandwidth for multiple chained drives

    I'm acquiring a 2012 Mac Mini and a bunch of LaCie 2big RAID enclosures, with the intention of making a FreeBSD/ZFS file server. Some of these enclosures would connect over FireWire 800, but the Mac Mini only has one port. They would be daisy-chained using FW800 cables. In a situation where...
  3. HexagonWin

    Good operating system for a 4,1 MacBook.

    Hello! I'm running a MacBook4,1 (Early 2008), which has a Core 2 Duo T8100, 2.5GB of 667mhz DDR2 ram, a 128gb ssd. I had been running [Devuan Chimaera / Windows Server 2008 R2 / FreeBSD 12.x] in the laptop recently, but I accidentally broke the FreeBSD 12 partition. I'm trying to install a...
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    FreeBSD on PowerMac G5?

    Anyone has an experience? I wanna try installing it as a second system. Instructions online appear to be pre-historic, while PowerPC (incl. ppc64) should be fully supported in the latest FreeBSD 13.
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    Overheating Issue with FreeBSD on PowerBook G4 6,4

    Greetings, After a quarter-century hiatus, I'm back to BSD and hoping to make use of an old PowerBook G4 6,4 (12" 1.33GHz 1.25GB) to experiment with the various BSDs before picking one and putting it to work. I threw out the HDD and replaced it with an IDE - mSATA adapter and a pair of 60GB...
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    • Forum: PowerPC Macs
  6. grahamperrin

    Resolved Applications for Mac OS X, without Apple's operating system

    Seeing today's brief video about work in progress on CrossOver Android, then finding last year's blog post, makes me wonder … … whether some future product, from any group of developers, will allow easy use of some apps for Mac OS X – without Apple's operating system. Some, not all – for...
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