Dr. Aharon Friedman
2008-Oct-06 15:18 UTC
Is FreeBSD a suitable choice for a MacBook? --- WHY?
I am not sure why you would want to put FreeBSD on the Mac. Mac is already FreeBSD. Most of the FreeBSD ports have been made available to the Mac through Macports. X11 comes with it, and Apple gives you access to the kernel source code. If you must for some reason have FreeBSD, I recommend using a virtual machine software such as VM Ware Fusion (the are cheeper when you buy from Amazon - about $60). It does work very well for me. Although I use the Mac OS for all my Unix needs, I have installed a Windows XP Pro 64 bit for my Windows need. You could create a Linux and / or FreeBSD virtual machine. The software will even download it for you. Aharon Friedman
Dr. Aharon Friedman
2008-Oct-06 16:19 UTC
Is FreeBSD a suitable choice for a MacBook? --- WHY?
Sorry, I meant BSD. Here is the link: http://www.freebsd.org/news/press-rel-3.html Aharon Friedman On Oct 6, 2008, at 11:25 AM, David Sanders wrote:> 2008/10/6 Dr. Aharon Friedman <afriedman@drsns.com>: >> I am not sure why you would want to put FreeBSD on the Mac. Mac is >> already >> FreeBSD. Most of the FreeBSD ports have been made available to the >> Mac >> through Macports. X11 comes with it, and Apple gives you access to >> the >> kernel source code. >> >> If you must for some reason have FreeBSD, I recommend using a virtual >> machine software such as VM Ware Fusion (the are cheeper when you >> buy from >> Amazon - about $60). It does work very well for me. Although I >> use the Mac >> OS for all my Unix needs, I have installed a Windows XP Pro 64 bit >> for my >> Windows need. You could create a Linux and / or FreeBSD virtual >> machine. >> The software will even download it for you. >> > > I'm just a lurker, but even I know that only some of the userland > apps in OS X > are BSD-based. The kernel is mach microkernel based and not even > slightly > similar. > > I don't think anyone is answering the OP's question, but put simply > Mac OS is > not BSD, and the X11 implementation is buggy to say the least. I > wouldn't > recommend it for most OSS stack dev work.