From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 27 15:03:07 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F51F106566B for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:03:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from demelier.david@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f166.google.com (mail-ew0-f166.google.com [209.85.219.166]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 681518FC0A for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:03:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from demelier.david@gmail.com) Received: by ewy10 with SMTP id 10so1148279ewy.43 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:03:05 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=S0QJqE2YyTShrb+C60ILqbVW+urTduwtSZhgBcdz7zM=; b=DGcADmGdfOCxgv6Re6gmgPDRkFFRLGaCuoAFT5rxqNoqCJSMu15YaezLT4/aO+pEMT Y2o1bx4hYtSxrfClvm3BbTSh8OZZuhbH4whf1xAowDaZVyeu5BjJRzYkc667Cee+d0YQ 2TwMWbC5JDhYMGLj5XxfIk89ha3HKOrmkCIVM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=yFVJEuFgO79nqQhlpAEkweoofjjzuyr4Fe1EVkpv/zLxpwp6Bb4Qzv9MKtO7w5KjHH QR99mvOiKiW0ZRaYO2+c2WHxMtzhIg2frmi+CeiPRxNNWo7h7ZOMnX5aZTSTz30cvTaZ BHxjjIIxMYKrpCiZ3ZN/S3GqwGdKMDDgf1MTQ= Received: by 10.210.13.17 with SMTP id 17mr2036847ebm.69.1235746985435; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:03:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from Mangue (248.21.102-84.rev.gaoland.net [84.102.21.248]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm442759eyb.58.2009.02.27.07.03.04 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:03:04 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:02:59 +0100 From: Demelier David To: Nataraj S Narayan , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090227150259.GA98397@Mangue> References: <630286c70902270134u18505882xbabf547190ae8747@mail.gmail.com> <20090227114529.GC91411@orion.ulstu.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090227114529.GC91411@orion.ulstu.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Cc: Subject: Re: Ports on Macbook X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:03:07 -0000 zaa@zaa.pp.ru wrote: > 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. > > > > But i see there is the 'ports' for Mac as in the case of FreeBSD. Is > > it the same thing? Can we use FreeBSD ports on Macbook? That we I am > > spared of paying profusely? > > Mac users might use Mac Ports - http://www.macports.org/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I don't know if we can runs any FreeBSD ports, I know that the mac os kernel have a FreeBSD layer and you can runs some binaries from unix-like OS.