This page contains information about porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC®.
3 July, 2002 : This page has been significantly updated. FreeBSD/PowerPC currently boots almost to the point of reaching single-user mode.
An older news list can be found on Benno's page, and you can view the bootup log.
FreeBSD/PowerPC is a port of the FreeBSD operating system to computers with the PowerPC processor, most notably recent Macintosh® computers.
At the moment "New World" (i.e. colourful case) Apple Macintoshes. Other platforms, such as older Power Mac®s and non-Apple computers using Open Firmware, are expected to be targeted later on.
FreeBSD/PowerPC currently is on the verge of booting to single-user mode.
FreeBSD/PowerPC is mostly in cvs for -CURRENT.
Benno Rice is the project lead. Contact him if you can contribute code. If you just want to know about the status of this project, check this page regularly or join the FreeBSD/PowerPC mailing list.
To subscribe to this list, send mail to <freebsd-ppc-subscribe@FreeBSD.org> or visit mailman interface.