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Interview with Brian Kernighan (Linux Journal)
Interview with Brian Kernighan (Linux Journal)
Posted Jul 29, 2003 19:41 UTC (Tue) by cpeterso (guest, #305)Parent article: Interview with Brian Kernighan (Linux Journal)
LJ: What UNIX OSes do you like? Linux? BSD?
BK: The way I use them, which is as a casual programmer, it doesn't matter--they are all the same. If I encounter some difference, it only makes me mad, because there really isn't any reason for things to be different most of the time. I use Solaris at Princeton, Irix when I visit Bell Labs, and FreeBSD on my Mac; I also have Cygwin on several PCs so that standard tools are readily available.
He uses FreeBSD on his Mac?! Was this a joke? There is no PowerPC port of FreeBSD. Maybe he mean he uses an X Windows client on his Mac to connect to a FreeBSD server..?
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Interview with Brian Kernighan (Linux Journal)
Posted Jul 29, 2003 20:12 UTC (Tue) by dmuino (subscriber, #6930) [Link]
Very likely he meant OSX/Darwin, which is not FreeBSD, but it does have quite a bit of BSD code in it.
Interview with Brian Kernighan (Linux Journal)
Posted Jul 29, 2003 20:16 UTC (Tue) by derby (guest, #2977) [Link]
http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ppc.html
Interview with Brian Kernighan (Linux Journal)
Posted Jul 30, 2003 0:02 UTC (Wed) by cpeterso (guest, #305) [Link]
Latest News - 3 July, 2002 : This page has been significantly updated. FreeBSD/PowerPC currently boots almost to the point of reaching single-user mode.