From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 27 19:01:08 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 B32D71065670 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:01:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from elliot+list@schlegelmilch.org) Received: from a.r00t-servers.net (a.r00t-servers.net [206.223.224.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FB4E8FC20 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:01:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from elliot+list@schlegelmilch.org) Received: by a.r00t-servers.net (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 54D4E33C3F; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:44:08 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:44:08 -0500 From: Elliot Schlegelmilch To: Nataraj S Narayan Message-ID: <20090227184408.GA59471@schlegelmilch.org> References: <630286c70902270134u18505882xbabf547190ae8747@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <630286c70902270134u18505882xbabf547190ae8747@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org 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 19:01:09 -0000 On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 03:04:09PM +0530, Nataraj S Narayan wrote: > 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. Don't you need to pay for upgrades or add ons for any system, Apple or otherwise? Do you mean "pay for software"? > 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? Define profusely. So am I to understand that you don't want to buy your wife software for her computer? There are plenty of free alternatives, depending on her needs, which you've omitted. Firefox, Safari, Opera are all free. OpenOffice should work in Mac OS X. Perhaps you should look at apple.com/downloads/ and see what's in your price range. Does she already have legal copies of Windows software? There are at least two choices of emmulators. Alternately, you may be searching for something like: finkproject.org or darwinports.com