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Date:      Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:00:48 +0200
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Eirik_Wix=F8e_Svela?= <eirik@nynorsk.no>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Is FreeBSD a suitable choice for a MacBook?
Message-ID:  <48E7BD60.80001@nynorsk.no>

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I have an Apple MacBook with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor (November
2007 edition, cf. the Wikipedia article for specifications), and I have
been considering switching to one of the free UNIX clones for some time
now. I understand that Ubuntu GNU/Linux is supposed to work well on this
kind of machine, but I would rather use some variant of BSD if that is a
viable alternative.

I would therefore like to ask you whether anyone here has any experience
with FreeBSD, either 7.0-RELEASE or any other version, that they would
like to share so I might know what to expect if I choose to go through
with this. I have some time on my hands the next couple of weeks, so I
am prepared to spend some days tweaking things to work if it is worth
the effort, but if it isn't, I might as well take Ubuntu for a spin or
do a clean install of Mac OS X.

Best regards
Eirik W. Svela
OpenPGP key ID 0x46DCA4C4



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