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Who created NetBSD?
The four founders of the NetBSD project, Chris Demetriou, Theo de Raadt, Adam Glass, and Charles Hannum, felt that a more open development model would benefit the project: one centered on portable, clean, correct code. They aimed to produce a unified, multi-platform, production-quality, BSD-based operating system.
Is NetBSD stable?
The NetBSD code was originally derived from 4.4BSD Lite2 from the University of California, Berkeley. NetBSD-stable is a nightly distribution of the latest release branch, and includes fixes and improvements that will make it into the next point release.
Is the FreeBSD / PPC port a Tier 2 platform?
The FreeBSD/ppc port is still a Tier 2 platform. That means it is not being fully supported by our security officer, release engineers and toolchain maintainers. However, it is supported by portmgr (package building).
Is the FreeBSD port still a work in progress?
The FreeBSD/ppc project pages contain information about the FreeBSD port to the PowerPC® architecture. As with the port itself, these pages are still a work in progress. The FreeBSD/ppc port is still a Tier 2 platform. That means it is not being fully supported by our security officer, release engineers and toolchain maintainers.
What kind of computer can I run FreeBSD on?
The FreeBSD/ppc mailing list is the main resource. The most up-to-date information about supported hardware is currently being maintained on the wiki. The FreeBSD/ppc port should run on any New-World Apple machine (any Apple machine with a built-in USB port), as well as the Sony Playstation 3.
Do you need a 32 bit CPU to use POWERPC64?
Users of 32-bit CPUs (Apple G3/G4) must use the 32-bit powerpc platform, users of 64-bit CPUs that support 32-bit operating systems (Apple G5) have a choice, and users of 64-bit CPUs that do not must use powerpc64. For those users with a choice, powerpc64 provides some additional features (the ability to use more than 2 GB of RAM and ZFS support).