From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Dec 22 21:28:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0854037B401 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 21:28:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.huntbros.net (130-94-162-227-dsl.hevanet.com [130.94.162.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3105043EE5 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 21:28:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dh@huntbros.net) Received: from pdx.huntbros.net (IDENT:1005@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.huntbros.net (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id gBN5S6m7004187 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 21:28:06 -0800 Received: (from dh@localhost) by pdx.huntbros.net (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit) id gBN5S505004186; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 21:28:05 -0800 Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 21:28:05 -0800 (PST) From: David Hunt To: Subject: Mac iBook OS10 + BSD Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have been using Linux (Slackware) for a number of years on my desktop, and have never used BSD. From what I've gathered, BSD sounds like the kind of OS I would like. I Now need to get a laptop, and have been thinking of getting a new Mac Ibook, but OS 10 seems to lack some important features I want/need, like virtual terminals, things I have grown quite used to. Would BSD be a good choice for the iBook as the third OS (along with OS9 and OS10)? How much can BSD share things like utilities and config files with OS10? Is there any special compatability due to the OSs being similar in some ways? How should I plan my BSD intallation? Any special advantage of having BSD on a Mac with OS10, as compared to Linux Slackware? -- David Hunt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message