Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 01:09:18 +0100 From: ".VWV." <victorvittorivonwiktow@interfree.it> To: <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Re: workstations aren't always the same as desktops Message-ID: <000501c4017c$f74d7e80$7a30fea9@workstation> References: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0403021656140.3269-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net><001e01c400be$5af6b380$7a30fea9@workstation> <742ABCF9-6D2D-11D8-9B95-0003937C0B34@mac.com>
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---- Original Message ---- From: "John Martinez" <rolnif@mac.com> To: <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org> Sent: Wednesday, 03 March, 2004 17:11 Subject: Re: workstations aren't always the same as desktops > On Mar 2, 2004, at 5:24 PM, .VWV. wrote: > >> ---- Original Message ---- >> From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> >> To: ".VWV." <victorvittorivonwiktow@interfree.it> >> Cc: <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org> >> Sent: Wednesday, 03 March, 2004 01:57 >> Subject: Re: workstations aren't always the same as desktops >> >>> I have been using bochs off and on the past couple months. It works >>> fine >>> for me (although slow). >> >> This is a potential bomb, because people of Apple seem don't want to >> release >> the necessary, in order tu run Apple-dedicated commercial stuff on >> other >> platforms, even if the o.s. is FreeBSD based. > > Of course not. They want you to buy a piece of hardware with that Mac > OS X installation. They should figure out myself purchasing their plastic-boxes... I like to build my own 'stations' on 19" steel rackmount modules, into cubic steel cabinets, with metal removable racks, plus a modified air cooling system, based on the Alpha micro-forged heatsinks... Adding-on some Corsair memory modules and an ICP Vortex SCSI controller, the beast is done... I have just received a funny fake message from my provider, with the add-on of an executable for my WIN, dressed like a .zip. Maybe somebody doesn't like my taste for free-thinking... VMWare should work on /usr/compat/linux, it is told in 'The Complete Reference FreeBSD' by Roderick W. Smith, 'Mc Graw Hill Osborne' editions. I'll try. As always roadrunner .VWV.
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