From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 28 05:19:53 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 8E720106564A for ; Sat, 28 Feb 2009 05:19:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mario@schmut.com) Received: from mail.schmut.com (mail.schmut.com [66.92.49.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 583A78FC1A for ; Sat, 28 Feb 2009 05:19:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mario@schmut.com) Received: (qmail 46633 invoked by uid 89); 28 Feb 2009 04:53:11 -0000 Received: from fatty.localnet (fatty.schmut.com [192.168.223.6]) by snoopy.schmut.com (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:53:11 -0800 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:48:44 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.4 (Linux/2.6.28.7-custom; KDE/4.1.4; i686; ; ) References: <630286c70902270134u18505882xbabf547190ae8747@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <630286c70902270134u18505882xbabf547190ae8747@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <200902272048.44465.mario@schmut.com> X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) From: Mario Theodoridis X-Primary-Address: mario@schmut.com X-Schmut-Approved: yes Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Ports on Macbook X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Mario Theodoridis List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 05:19:53 -0000 On Friday 27 February 2009 01:34:09 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? There are port systems, but i doubt FreeBSD ports will build on OS X check out http://www.finkproject.org/ and http://darwinports.com/ Also the mac doesn't run X natively and the implementation used to be substandard a couple of years ago. (Difficult clipboard support, apps not on task bar, multi monitor hand ups...). I assume this has improved, since it's been a couple of years since i played with macs. mario;>