RE: Intel Mac experiences

2006-05-27 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Scott Sipe Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 12:14 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel Mac experiences On May 26, 2006, at 1:36 AM, vayu wrote: On May 25, 2006, at 9:13 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt

Re: Intel Mac experiences

2006-05-26 Thread vayu
. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Earl Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 12:48 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel Mac experiences I'm not joking. This is a FreeBSD mailing list isn't it? On 5/25/06

Re: Intel Mac experiences

2006-05-26 Thread Scott Sipe
On May 26, 2006, at 1:36 AM, vayu wrote: On May 25, 2006, at 9:13 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: James, you missed the point. If you have an Intel MAC it came with MacOS X (tiger) and that is basically the same operating system as FreeBSD. Meaning, what are you trying to gain? If anything,

Re: Intel Mac experiences

2006-05-26 Thread John Cruz
Scott Sipe wrote: This is not true--how do you think Bootcamp works? It provides BIOS emulation for booting windows, and whatever else. Secondly, why do people keep saying that OSX and FreeBSD are basically the same operating system -- if by basically the same you mean have a unix base, then

Re: Intel Mac experiences

2006-05-26 Thread Lorin Lund
John Cruz wrote: Scott Sipe wrote: ... the same, they all (all the BSDs and MacOS) are basically the same at the os level, but not the kernel level. Also, i'm pretty sure that /etc/fstab/ exists on OS X OS X on my iBook has an /etc/fstab so I would certainly expect the Intel version to

Re: Intel Mac experiences

2006-05-26 Thread James Earl
On 5/26/06, vayu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can understand the desire. OS X does have a polished and beautiful desktop environment, but it is not FreeBSD. If money were no object for me, I would want a Macbook Pro with a triple boot of OS X, Win XP and FreeBSD. Back to the original topic:

Re: Intel Mac experiences

2006-05-26 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On May 26, 2006, at 7:54 AM, John Cruz wrote: When it comes right down to it, the differences between freeBSD and MacOS X (darwin) are very minimal. No, you can't do a buildworld because you can't build the kernel source because the source is closed. But why would you need to? The kernel

RE: Intel Mac experiences

2006-05-25 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Please tell me your joking, don't you know that MacOS X is just a commercialized version of FreeBSD? Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Earl Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 3:29 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Intel Mac

Re: Intel Mac experiences

2006-05-25 Thread James Earl
] Behalf Of James Earl Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 3:29 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Intel Mac experiences Hi, I'm just curious if there's any developers playing around with getting FreeBSD installed onto an Intel Mac, and if you could share any experiences or development plans

Re: Intel Mac experiences

2006-05-25 Thread Adrian Pavone
PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Earl Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 3:29 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Intel Mac experiences Hi, I'm just curious if there's any developers playing around with getting FreeBSD installed onto an Intel Mac, and if you could share any experiences

Re: Intel Mac experiences

2006-05-25 Thread James Earl
of FreeBSD? Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Earl Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 3:29 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Intel Mac experiences Hi, I'm just curious if there's any developers playing around with getting

Re: Intel Mac experiences

2006-05-25 Thread James Earl
know that MacOS X is just a commercialized version of FreeBSD? Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Earl Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 3:29 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Intel Mac experiences Hi, I'm just

Re: Intel Mac experiences

2006-05-25 Thread Adrian Pavone
Of James Earl Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 3:29 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Intel Mac experiences Hi, I'm just curious if there's any developers playing around with getting FreeBSD installed onto an Intel Mac, and if you could share any experiences or development plans

Re: Intel Mac experiences

2006-05-25 Thread Adrian Pavone
-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Intel Mac experiences Hi, I'm just curious if there's any developers playing around with getting FreeBSD installed onto an Intel Mac, and if you could share any experiences or development plans? My 6.1-RELEASE installation CD gets just past the boot menu

Re: Intel Mac experiences

2006-05-25 Thread James Earl
:29 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Intel Mac experiences Hi, I'm just curious if there's any developers playing around with getting FreeBSD installed onto an Intel Mac, and if you could share any experiences or development plans? My 6.1-RELEASE installation CD gets just

Re: Intel Mac experiences

2006-05-25 Thread Don Hinton
, 2006 3:29 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Intel Mac experiences Hi, I'm just curious if there's any developers playing around with getting FreeBSD installed onto an Intel Mac, and if you could share any experiences or development plans? My 6.1

Re: Intel Mac experiences

2006-05-25 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On May 25, 2006, at 1:27 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Please tell me your joking, don't you know that MacOS X is just a commercialized version of FreeBSD? Ted Ted, WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG I have not yet read the rest of the replies but the above is wrong.Different

RE: Intel Mac experiences

2006-05-25 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
not have. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Earl Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 12:48 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel Mac experiences I'm not joking. This is a FreeBSD mailing list isn't

Intel Mac experiences

2006-05-24 Thread James Earl
Hi, I'm just curious if there's any developers playing around with getting FreeBSD installed onto an Intel Mac, and if you could share any experiences or development plans? My 6.1-RELEASE installation CD gets just past the boot menu and then stops. OpenBSD boots further but not all the way,