On Friday 27 February 2009 01:34:09 Nataraj S Narayan wrote: > Hi > > I hear that Mac OS X and later ones are based on FreeBSD. My wife is > planning to get a Macbook , which I don't quite approve. Mainly > because we need to pay for any upgrade or new add ons. > > But i see there is the 'ports' for Mac as in the case of FreeBSD. Is > it the same thing? Can we use FreeBSD ports on Macbook? That we I am > spared of paying profusely?
There are port systems, but i doubt FreeBSD ports will build on OS X check out http://www.finkproject.org/ and http://darwinports.com/ Also the mac doesn't run X natively and the implementation used to be substandard a couple of years ago. (Difficult clipboard support, apps not on task bar, multi monitor hand ups...). I assume this has improved, since it's been a couple of years since i played with macs. mario;> _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"