Hello. I have an iBook G4 that I recently installed FreeBSD on. It works quite well. However, there are no packages that I can find for this architecture. There are only ports, which take a long time to compile. I notice on the FreeBSD site that the PowerPC architecture is described as "tier two", which states,
The last statement, that it is supported by portmgr (package building) [emphasis intentionally added], is quite interesting to me. Does this mean that there are packages available somewhere for this architecture? And if not, does it mean that there should be packages available somewhere, and I can expect this sometime in the near future? If so, that would be great.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).