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From: Jean-Philippe Provost <jphilippe.provost@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 18:22:08 -0500
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Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD will run on a old MacBook laptop?
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Hi,

Thanks for the infos. I'll give it a try.

I know that Mac OS X is UNIX, but I want UNIX in a *pure* way ;)

Cheers.


2014-02-22 16:41 GMT-05:00 Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>:

> On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 14:48:12 -0500, Jean-Philippe Provost wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I was wondering if it was possible to recycle my 2008-late MacBook to
> > install FreeBSD on it?
>
> FreeBSD should run on the Intel version. Make sure you can
> enable booting from CD or from USB and try the i386 version
> of FreeBSD (or even amd64 if the CPU is 64 bit capable).
> There are some limitations and tasks you need to check
> in order to get everything running. A short web search
> should reveal those.
>
>
>
> > Since I'm new to UNIX (never used it), [...]
>
> If you've been using Mac OS X - well, that was UNIX. :-)
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Polytropon
> Magdeburg, Germany
> Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
> Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
>