From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 26 15:24:32 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 9FB0816A429 for ; Fri, 26 May 2006 15:24:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from admin@icionline.ca) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.232]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3933943D48 for ; Fri, 26 May 2006 15:24:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from admin@icionline.ca) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i24so84600wra for ; Fri, 26 May 2006 08:24:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.206.18 with SMTP id i18mr413575qbq; Fri, 26 May 2006 08:23:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.138.6 with HTTP; Fri, 26 May 2006 08:23:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <772f0d7b0605260823sa103665n16c5fa7d64f3dc94@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 09:23:52 -0600 From: "James Earl" Sender: admin@icionline.ca To: vayu In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: X-Google-Sender-Auth: 50d3b6ccb538880f Cc: 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 15:24:32 -0000 On 5/26/06, vayu wrote: > 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. Maybe I'm just experiencing withdrawls from not using FreeBSD! ;) To try to boot any of these install CD's all ya do is hold down the C key to boot from the CD drive. Gentoo Linux had no problems booting, and GNOME actually felt quite fast (this is using the LiveCD). I think the hacks you read about are for getting an EFI compatible boot loader setup, or for getting winxp running before Apple's Boot Camp came out. I got the Intel Mac Mini mainly for the hardware. I like it's tiny size, low power consumption, and silent operation. I have another OS X machine at home, so I always planned to install FreeBSD on this Mac Mini when it was possible. I can get my work done on any system. So I just like to run the system that I enjoy playing with the most! James