Intel Mac experiences

[vayu]

On May 25, 2006, at 9:13 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:

>
> James, you missed the point.  If you have an Intel MAC it came
> with MacOS X (tiger) and that is basically the same operating
> system as FreeBSD.  Meaning, what are you trying to gain?  If
> anything, your worse off with FreeBSD since MacOS X comes with
> a gorgeous user interface that FreeBSD does not have.
>
> Ted


I can understand the desire.  OS X does have a polished and beautiful  
desktop environment, but it is not FreeBSD.  If money were no object  
for me, I would want a Macbook Pro with a triple boot of OS X, Win XP  
and FreeBSD.

Back to the original topic: James, I'm curious that you had any  
results booting with any BSD or Linux.  The Intel Macs have no BIOS,   
I have read of hacks that got Linux (and Windows before Apple offered  
it) to work, but it didn't seem straight forward based on the  
accounts I read.




>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of James Earl
>> Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 12:48 PM
>> To: Ted Mittelstaedt
>> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> Subject: Re: Intel Mac experiences
>>
>>
>> I'm not joking.  This is a FreeBSD mailing list isn't it?
>>
>> On 5/25/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm at toybox.placo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Please tell me your joking, don't you know that MacOS X is
>>> just a commercialized version of FreeBSD?
>>>
>>> Ted