From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 26 06:36:46 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3EDD16A625 for ; Fri, 26 May 2006 06:36:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vayu@sklinks.com) Received: from smtp107.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp107.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4969243D53 for ; Fri, 26 May 2006 06:36:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vayu@sklinks.com) Received: (qmail 70085 invoked from network); 26 May 2006 06:36:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.0.69?) (varuna@sbcglobal.net@69.106.224.82 with plain) by smtp107.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 26 May 2006 06:36:45 -0000 In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v749) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: vayu Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 23:36:43 -0700 To: Ted Mittelstaedt X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.749) Cc: James Earl , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel Mac experiences X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 06:36:46 -0000 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@freebsd.org >> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of James Earl >> Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 12:48 PM >> To: Ted Mittelstaedt >> Cc: freebsd-questions@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 wrote: >>> >>> Please tell me your joking, don't you know that MacOS X is >>> just a commercialized version of FreeBSD? >>> >>> Ted