Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2018 16:13:46 -0800 From: Marius Schamschula <lists@schamschula.com> To: Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: apple : mac pro : full hardware supported? Message-ID: <77536D9E-6659-443E-ADB6-A9D1E6CF1963@schamschula.com> In-Reply-To: <c36354d78a531d7836540c7e2f805478@kathe.in> References: <c36354d78a531d7836540c7e2f805478@kathe.in>
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> On Dec 23, 2018, at 4:54 AM, Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> wrote: >=20 > is the newer generation of apple hardware, especially the mac pro, = well supported by freebsd? > my thinkpad had some twisted support for it's hardware, specifically = lacked Wifi support and occasionally shutdown or rebooted on it's own = and hence had to be sold back to the hardware vendor. since I am in the = no-machine state right now, wondered if a monolithic ally well-built = hardware like the mac pro be worth it. > thanks. You didn=E2=80=99t say which generation of Mac Pro. As others have said, = the current Mac Pros (cylindrical) are probably poorly supported. At work, I=E2=80=99ve been running FreeBSD on a 2009 Mac Pro (cheese = grater), bare metal as a web server. As that is old hardware (however I=E2=80=99ve got a lot of them, from a = research compute cluster), my home machine is a Dell server class = machine - 8 drive bays vs. 4 on the old Mac Pro, and none on the current = Mac Pro=E2=80=A6 Marius > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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