Re: FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel?

2008-11-26 Thread Ian Jefferson
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Tom Marchand wrote: snip Ian, You could always test it using VMWare Fusionand then let us know Er, Gee thanks. I'll just have a word with the VMware guys about fully abastracting the mini in software... back in a jiffy ;-) Actually VMWare

Re: FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel?

2008-11-25 Thread Tom Marchand
on a Mac Mini Intel? Ian, You could always test it using VMWare Fusionand then let us know Er, Gee thanks. I'll just have a word with the VMware guys about fully abastracting the mini in software... back in a jiffy ;-) Actually VMWare has a Mac Version which is what

Re: FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel?

2008-11-25 Thread George Hartzell
Bill Campbell writes: [...] I haven't tried FreeBSD on the Macs. [...] -STABLE runs almost flawlessly on an 8-core late 2008 Mac PRO. Sometimes hangs as it's booting and you need to give the snd_hda driver a couple of hints to get sound out, but otherwise it rocks. g.

Re: FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel?

2008-11-25 Thread Kelly Martin
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 6:08 AM, Andrew Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 9:08 AM, John Almberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 21, 2008, at 11:42 PM, Ian Jefferson wrote: Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel? You could always test it using VMWare Fusion

Re: FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel?

2008-11-24 Thread Andrew Gould
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 9:08 AM, John Almberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 21, 2008, at 11:42 PM, Ian Jefferson wrote: Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel? I don't know the answer to your question, but don't think it's a crazy one. One of the most interesting things I've seen

Re: FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel?

2008-11-24 Thread Ian Jefferson
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Andrew Gould wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 9:08 AM, John Almberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 21, 2008, at 11:42 PM, Ian Jefferson wrote: Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel? Ian, You could always test it using VMWare Fusion

Re: FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel?

2008-11-24 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008, Ian Jefferson wrote: On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Andrew Gould wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 9:08 AM, John Almberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 21, 2008, at 11:42 PM, Ian Jefferson wrote: Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel? Ian, You could always

Re: FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel?

2008-11-23 Thread John Almberg
On Nov 21, 2008, at 11:42 PM, Ian Jefferson wrote: Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel? I don't know the answer to your question, but don't think it's a crazy one. One of the most interesting things I've seen, lately, is a hosting company that uses stacks of Mac Minis running

FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel?

2008-11-21 Thread Ian Jefferson
Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel? I've looked around for a definitive discussion on the topic but couldn't find anything on this list or Google at least. I'd like to replace a couple of relatively high power-consuming servers with a couple of Mac Mini Intel's. For my purposes