Re: [MacPerl] Mac to Unix & back Follow-Up

["Jeffrey D.R.S. Carl" <jcarl@servint.com>]

On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Dennis Little wrote:

> If all goes well, I'll be setting up a scrap Unix box (probably a Q630 or
> so with FreeBSD) for testing under Unix (and learning Unix as well).

Assuming you're talking about a Quadra 630, I don't think there's a
version of FreeBSD available. In fact, (if I remember correctly - someone
please help me if I don't) I think FreeBSD is strictly x86 as part of its
mission.

For 68k Macs, more or less your only alternatives for Unix are OpenBSD
m68k, NetBSD m68k, Linux m68k (I think this is still in pretty early
development), or snagging an old copy of A/UX. With the exception of Linux
m68k, I don't know that any of the above are still particularly well
maintained (certainly not A/UX ;)), at least not the way that the PPC
Linuxes (linuxppc and mklinux) are. If you can find FreeBSD for m68k or
PPC, I'd love to know. 

Anyway, one of the better resources for finding Unix flavors for Mac is:

http://web.espy.org/apple-flavored-unix/

For my two cents' worth, running MkLinux on a PPC is great (no mucking
around with Open Firmware, a la LinuxPPC), and serves as a great Unix Perl
development box. Running XEmacs is the next best thing to BBEdit.

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