From: Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 8:48 AM > Berg, Björn wrote: > > > > Thanks for this interesting news and background information! > > Hm. I should quit being a Mac-fan, GNU-believing, > hacker-wannabe DBA and try > to do something as a Computer Historian (do such a thing > exist?) or industry > analyst -- but then, I think my views are too much against the grain.
Yes, this would be a great idea. If a Computer Historian does not exist, you will be the one who introduce it :-)) > >> Hmm, kinda dual-booting? > >> > > > > Well, tht's something I look forward to, but it isn't easy. > I have to boot > > Linux with mklinux. I didn't get Yabbot running on my > PowerPC. Perhaps it is > > to old, because it supports no OpenFirmware as example. > > I thought more, to port some features to Linux PowerPC... > > Yes, it's probably Old World and Yaboot will work only > in New World machines. > You would need miBoot (fake Mac OS) or BootX (Mac OS > extension). In the first > case you need only a circa 20 MB HFS partition; in the second > you need at > least a basic, working installation of Mac OS with some > megabytes to spare, > but then you can dualboot with Mac OS. Well, then would be miboot my choice. I'm trying to set up a system which does not require MacOS in any way. BootX won't run on my Powerbook, don't ask me why, but it does not run. So MkLinux-Booter was the only choice at the moment. [...] > > I found another port of an UNIX based OS. BeOS is also port > to the PowerPC, > > but even not to older ones. > > BeOS is just POSIX, not the GUI... but anyway it is > History now, they ceased to > develop and promote the desktop version and were bought by > 3Com's Palm. That is very new to me. I thought, there is a free developer group around BeOS. This is what they write on some pages. But I see, that they don't develop it further. The version 5 was there at the end of 2000 I remember... Greetz :-)) Björn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
