Subject: Re: Linux and BeOS
From: Roy Koch (rkoch@interaccess.com)
Date: Sun Nov 21 1999 - 09:03:44 MST
Thanks I would like to think that Apple would be rather than not to be!
Brian Ketelsen wrote:
> The official Be word is that they refuse to reverse engineer the new Apple
> hardware. Don't know why, but I do know that reverse engineering is the
> only way the Linux guys got anything booting on the new G3s and above.
> Since Apple is again becoming more and more tight about giving out specs of
> hardware, it looks less and less likely to see BeOS running on anything at
> the G3 level and above. Interestingly, the G3 upgrade cards run Be just
> fine, it's the motherboards that Be has a problem with.
>
> Unfortunately, Be has requested design specs several times and Apple has
> refused, so it looks like Intel is the platform of the future for Be. It
> runs nicely on my Pentium 200 MMX...
>
> --
>
> Brian Ketelsen
> briank@becos.org
>
> Take a RISC --
> G4 Powered by Motorola
>
> ----------
> >From: "Jason P. Stanford" <jps3@Lehigh.EDU>
> >To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> >Subject: Re: Linux and BeOS
> >Date: Sat, Nov 20, 1999, 10:53 AM
> >
>
> > I have YDL running on several machines that BeOS doesn't support (G3's).
> > I don't understand why Linux, and not BeOS, will run on these platforms.
> > If Linux developers can figure it out, why not BeOS? (Then again, I'm
> > hardly an expert on OS development!).
> >
> >
> >
> > Pierre Thibault wrote:
> >>
> >> BeOS is saying that they are unable to deliver their OS on the new Mac
> >> because Apple keep the documentation on the hardware secret. Is the same
> >> thing for Linux? Are you hacking? Is the Mac a close platform?
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> Tib.
> >
> > --
> > Taurus: (April. 20--May 20)
> > Try as you might, you will be unable to convince the judge that the
> > big jewel heist was all the monkey's idea.
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