FreeBSD on a Intel Mac...

[Dean Hamstead]

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.

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

On Tue, November 28, 2006 4:48 pm, Matthew T. Lager wrote:
> I'm not stating that an Apple laptop is so cool that you would want to
> install FreeBSD on it, however, if one has an Apple laptop, FreeBSD is so
> cool that you would want to install it on one.
>
> I develop applications for a company on an Apple laptop for Mac OS X, and
> finally I can use FreeBSD on it when not needing to be in Mac OS X, rather
> than having to switch over to another laptop.
>
> Did you get the impression that I was calling x86 users ignorant? I'm an
> x86
> user as well, and by the way, an Intel Mac is x86, so I'm not sure what
> your
> point was exactly.
>
> Anyway, cheers.
>
> Matt
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: soralx at cydem.org [mailto:soralx at cydem.org]
> Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 5:58 PM
> To: mlager at milieunetworks.com
> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on a Intel Mac...
>
>
>> I haven't seen much discussion about this, but I was able to get a
>> fully functional FreeBSD 6.2-RC1 system dual-booting with Mac OS X on
>> an Intel Mac. I'm trying to get some community support for this as I
>> think it's kinda cool to expand the capabilities of these Mac's.
>
> So tell us, ignorant x86 users, what is so cool about Apple notebooks
> that makes you want to install FreeBSD on one?
>
> [SorAlx]  ridin' VN1500-B2
>
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