About NetBSD/bebox  

NetBSD/bebox is the port of NetBSD to the BeBox.

Current status is “Experimental port”.

NetBSD/bebox Information

• BeBox Hardware Reference
• NetBSD/bebox History

Mailing Lists

• The NetBSD/bebox mailing list, covering NetBSD's port to the PowerPC-based BeBox computer from Be Inc. :
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• The NetBSD/powerpc mailing list, covering all of the PowerPC-based NetBSD ports :
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Future Releases

• NetBSD/bebox changes from from 2.0 to 3.0
• binary snapshots of NetBSD-current

Related Links

• Mail the NetBSD/bebox port maintainer

  NetBSD/bebox News  

2001-04-11:   1.5.1_BETA snapshot available

A NetBSD/bebox 1.5.1_BETA snapshot, based off of 1.5.1 sources as of 2001-04-06, is now available in the NetBSD/bebox snapshot area of the ftp server (snapshot deprecated. NetBSD 1.5.1 was released on July 11th, 2001).

2001-03-12:   Linux compatibility enabled for PowerPC ports

Emmanuel Dreyfus has integrated Linux binary compatibility for PowerPC ports. This means that NetBSD/bebox should now be able to run LinuxPPC binaries such as Netscape Communicator.

2001-02-12:   Some recent changes to NetBSD/bebox

Allen Briggs has added the ex(4) driver (3Com 3c90x[BC]) to NetBSD/bebox, and used it for a NFS-based boot. This requires configuring the PCI bus at boot time, which requires the PCI_NETBSD_CONFIGURE option to exist in your kernel configuration file.

Also, in addition to the tested 3Com card, all PCI devices supported under NetBSD/macppc should now work. Please tell the folks at the port-bebox if you have any problems.

SCSI support is under development.

Archive of NetBSD/bebox news items

  Supported System Models  

All BeBox models/revisions are supported in NetBSD/bebox.