FreeBSD on a Intel Mac...

[soralx at cydem.org]

> apple hardware is really well tested and in my experience very
> reliable.
> 
> the darwin source has helped a lot of drivers appear, but also the
> lack of variety in hardware means that everyone using a mac (with
> freebsd linux openbsd etc) is interested in getting the hardware
> going.

aha, good point; who needs diversity anyway? ;) hopefully it's all
good hardware, though

so, to what extent is an x86 Apple laptop functional with FreeBSD?
ACPI working? Suspend/resume? Accelerated video?

> further more, mac hardware seems to use similar components in all
> models (ok the cpu) - but in the ppc world  there is logical
> progression. so developers arent always reinventing the wheel
> 
> there are some thoughts, valid or otherwise.
> 
> Dean

[SorAlx]  ridin' VN1500-B2