Re: [OT] Re: apple mac laptop.

2008-08-09 Thread Mikel King
On Aug 8, 2008, at 3:44 PM, Gary Kline wrote: This might better be asked offlist, but there may be others like me who are clueless, and since you are familiar, I'll ask you. How interact-able are FBSD and (say) MacBook? E.g., is there a BSD-way of my creating

Re: [OT] Re: apple mac laptop.

2008-08-09 Thread John Almberg
I don't think it's far OT, either, since IMHO, Mac desktops and FreeBSD servers are the perfect, practical combination for many organizations, including my own. This might better be asked offlist, but there may be others like me who are clueless, and since you are familiar,

Re: [OT] Re: apple mac laptop.

2008-08-08 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 04:15:30PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Aug 7, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Gary Kline wrote: My daughter wants a laptop; the only brand [ AFAIC ] is Apple. amazon.com seems to have a fair price. Her school requires Word, for some reason. {maybe because we're in X-Bill

Re: [OT] Re: apple mac laptop.

2008-08-08 Thread John Almberg
(And yes, while one can run FreeBSD just fine on a Macbook, Sahil is right that the question is off-topic for these lists. :-) Well, considering that they asked us (and NetBSD) for clues when they were porting OSX, it didn't seem like my post was *that* far Off! maybe

Re: [OT] Re: apple mac laptop.

2008-08-08 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 08:47:50AM -0400, John Almberg wrote: (And yes, while one can run FreeBSD just fine on a Macbook, Sahil is right that the question is off-topic for these lists. :-) Well, considering that they asked us (and NetBSD) for clues when they were porting OSX, it

Re: [OT] Re: apple mac laptop.

2008-08-08 Thread David Kelly
On Aug 8, 2008, at 2:44 PM, Gary Kline wrote: So besides the mac firewall [whatever], the laptop will be behind my pfSense box. So... --and to be completely honest, the main reason for this $1000 laptop is *security*. When she was younger I wasn't that

[OT] Re: apple mac laptop.

2008-08-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Aug 7, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Gary Kline wrote: My daughter wants a laptop; the only brand [ AFAIC ] is Apple. amazon.com seems to have a fair price. Her school requires Word, for some reason. {maybe because we're in X-Bill country:} Anyway, if anybody onlist knows of a better place to buy an