Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 18:22:08 -0500 From: Jean-Philippe Provost <jphilippe.provost@gmail.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD will run on a old MacBook laptop? Message-ID: <CA%2BzOFzQVokBp381kk8Up%2BGbCL%2BpJM7BX3Accq4CuJ5Avqe9Zeg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20140222224139.d9cfd508.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <CA%2BzOFzTwYd514cFsdNkwXttvZd44Uy5J24zp-KZLdy=iqwy4PQ@mail.gmail.com> <20140222224139.d9cfd508.freebsd@edvax.de>
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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, ... >
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