At 3:49 PM -0600 2/13/2010, Caleb S. Cupples wrote:
On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 16:34 -0500, Dan wrote:
At 10:45 PM -0600 2/12/2010, williamd wrote:
>I have been having some trouble installing FreeBSD 7.2 on my imac,
>and am wondering whether another BSD or Linux distribution is better
>suited to my machine. Using a 15-inch 1ghz usb 2.0 model with 512mb
>ram and 80gb hard drive. Has anyone successfully used a -nix OS on
>this machine?
The absolute best Unix distro for your Mac is ..... Mac OS X.
Yes, Mac OS X.
That product from Apple, that is, at its core UNIX - based on Mach
and FreeBSD.
For you purists out there, that just cannot stand to use a pretty
GUI, such as Aqua - the one provided by Apple - you're more than
welcome to fire up Terminal and use whatever shell you want...
I agree, but with the caveat that 10.4 is the highest that his iMac can
go as it is, and 10.5 is only possible with much more memory (to be
usable) and with a big performance hit
pah. The kernel in Leopard is *faster* than Tiger's, and this is a
sweet 1 GHz Mac! Slap it on, then turn off some of the garbage (like
Dashboard) if you're worried about memory. Even at 512 it will do
fine, and can still easily be upgraded for, what, $20?
- Dan.
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