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Date:      Sat, 28 Feb 2009 10:21:53 -0500
From:      "Sean Cavanaugh" <Millenia2000@hotmail.com>
To:        <utisoft@gmail.com>, "Sergio de Almeida Lenzi" <lenzi@k1.com.br>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Ports on Macbook
Message-ID:  <BAY126-DS3A034D4AEE54FEE3609F3CAAB0@phx.gbl>
In-Reply-To: <b79ecaef0902280631j3df5098al2e7c1f8ddfc66f49@mail.gmail.com>
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From: "Chris Rees" <utisoft@googlemail.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 9:31 AM
To: "Sergio de Almeida Lenzi" <lenzi@k1.com.br>
Cc: "FreeBSD Mailing List" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; "FreeBSD Mailing 
List" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Ports on Macbook

> 2009/2/27 Sergio de Almeida Lenzi <lenzi@k1.com.br>:
>> Em Sex, 2009-02-27 ās 14:45 +0300, zaa@zaa.pp.ru escreveu:
>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 03:04:09PM +0530, Nataraj S Narayan wrote:
>>> > Hi
>>> >
>>> > I hear that Mac OS X and later ones are based on FreeBSD. My wife is
>>> > planning to get a Macbook , which I don't quite approve. Mainly
>>> > because we need to pay for any upgrade or new add ons.


for simple clarification. OSX is built on top of Darwin which is BASED on 
FreeBSD, but is not BSD. its BSD code built on top of the Mach kernel.
Ports are just the source code for the programs yer looking for anyway so 
there's nothing stopping you from doing stuff like installing OpenOffice or 
Gimp under OSX.
I've seen people replace the Quartz interface with Gnome before.  overall Im 
with you in abstaining from anything with the name "apple" attached to it 
since its all overpriced underpowered crap. 




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