From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 26 12:13:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E501937B401 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 12:13:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19B6543EB2 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 12:13:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (12-232-168-4.client.attbi.com[12.232.168.4]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02) with ESMTP id <20021226201343002000f3a4e>; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 20:13:44 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA03179; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 12:13:42 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 12:13:41 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: Steve Kudlak , David Hunt , "'hackers@freebsd.org'" , Kate Sullivan Subject: Re: Mac iBook OS10 + BSD In-Reply-To: <15883.6486.551402.144752@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Julian Elischer writes: > > That's with an unaltered macosX 10.1.5. > > from the user perspective it looks a lot like FreeBSD 3.{something} > > > I think he means text-only syscons like vtys. MacOSX does not have > them. Nobody has ever been able to tell me how to make a serial > console work on my OS-X crashbox either. I doubt that is what he means.. > > > The new one is basically like FreeBSD 4.4. > > All versions of OSX feel more like Nextstep than any version of > FreeBSD. But they feel more like FBSD than they feel like DOS :-) > > Stick with MacOS-X it's going to run better onthis hardware than > > anything else. > > > > However, if you're talking about ease of operation, then I agree with > you 100%. Suspend always works, the my ti powerbook is up and on the > network before I have the case open. My wife bought me a 2 button+ > scrollwheel mouse for Christmas. The mouse worked (scrollwheel > included) with no configuration at all, just as soon as I plugged it > in. It even worked in XDarwin. I was amazed. Iphoto rocks. Its > nice being able to run M$ Office natively, etc. I mean that suspend works, and device support is correct and functional, not to mention that there are actual useful Apps. :-) > > Fink (based on debian's dselect/apt-get) is great. As much as I hate > to say it, I think its better than our ports/pkgs system. I love how > it upgrades packages + dependancies seemlessly when you upgrade one > component. > > Drew > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message