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2140 | #50e5 | ^ | Idézet | Wed, 21 Oct 2020 12:12:59 +02

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@Carlos:
But I'm not sure about MorphOS since they're moving to x86.

No, not moving, extending. They are not decided yet, to drop the POWER platform, or not. Right now, they did not excluded the possibility of supporting the Raptor machines.

@Carlos:
NetBSD was also pushed to 9.1 these days:
https://www.netbsd.org/

Thanks, updated.

@Carlos:
There are also a port going on to PPC64le for NetBSD as well as FreeBSD.

Not suprising, LE PPC64 gets a lot of attention nowdays.

@Carlos:
Which one is the better BSD, Net, Open or Free? I searched an Google but didn't found something useful.

OSX, of course. :] (And by OSX, i mean Tiger of course. :P)

No, seriously, better is subjective, as in: better for what? NetBSD aims for portability, so if you want to run a BSD on anything in sight, NetBSD is the best. OpenBSD aims for security, so if you want to use (nearly) unbreakable BSD-s, then OpenBSD is the best. FreeBSD aims to deliver an all-around OS which can be used as desktop, server, embedded or whatever and due to this they have more programs and drivers, so if you want to use BSD instead of Linux, but you have driver issues with and/or miss apps from the other BSD-s, then FreeBSD is the best.

From POWER perspective, FreeBSD sucks. 8.2 was absolutely miserable on G4 and 10 was too. Then, i've managed to install 11 on my G5 (barely), but it took a lot of suffering.
NetBSD is a bit better. NetBSD 7 installed flawlessly on G5, but failed to work at all. And it was a real torture to install it on the G4 and had problems afterwards, but my machine had RAM problems, so that might be not NetBSD's fault. Did not tried again on the G4 since then.
I did not yet tried OpenBSD on POWER machines, only on ARM and x86. Flawlessly worked there, but on x86 and ARM, NetBSD and FreeBSD worked flawlessly too.