From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 28 21:23:21 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 C5AC01065674 for ; Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:23:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f176.google.com (mail-gx0-f176.google.com [209.85.217.176]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CEA78FC27 for ; Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:23:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: by gxk24 with SMTP id 24so4308474gxk.19 for ; Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:20 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=NpR7qopBtxEPP65oshguwfj6CH4khFbOFjXBD/gh9lY=; b=Hfi4yl4w2PPDx9vk1eFNr1aDbCXwzkwt3pxZAcmqek0pcXWnZS5VU+vLwgP06QBEuq pKzoi7QhHrTqS/op9yp3p5+cJiz55D/7ByseTPNEepMvsQEh+U7pLotAgUY2WLqTIH+B PZf2zYhCkaVGXKk9TwLDI6/KOe1B8hnSQXR38= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=mSHeQXtArRzAEiRxPXXCTbic+ucW4j5MZ3bS2TzKOuR5lThlJYFjwZnms059qlZQkV Ei+LJ+bMGkXHhnAYMDDfOzzqJ/0y2M6sYlRZg0yK1xocIHGS+8h8e2r/I23wT3/BVSXV E9z1LOcf9nh8X2sqjF32Hp23lWZ8WRPDDShTs= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.90.75.13 with SMTP id x13mr1964933aga.13.1235856200748; Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:20 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <200902272048.44465.mario@schmut.com> References: <630286c70902270134u18505882xbabf547190ae8747@mail.gmail.com> <200902272048.44465.mario@schmut.com> Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:20 -0800 Message-ID: <7d6fde3d0902281323r2b69af8cyd136173178bd859@mail.gmail.com> From: Garrett Cooper To: Mario Theodoridis Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:23:22 -0000 On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Mario Theodoridis wrote: > 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. fink and darwinports have all but died off now. I highly suggest using macports because (apart from the tcl based wrapper script), it's based off of FreeBSD's port system, with some tweaks. They also seem to keep things more up to date than fink did. HTH, -Garrett