FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro

Post by rangibaby » Thu, Nov 24, 2016, 5:04 AM UTC

boterock wrote: post #5

Some months ago I got FreeBSD running in a Macbook Air, and surprisingly the UEFI boot worked out of the box. I say surprisingly because when I tried, the Linux efiboot didn't work, the only way to boot linux was through GRUB. I had almost everything working (Audio, suspend on close, i3 or gnome) but never got the wifi to work, I even tethered from my android phone to the Macbook and it worked very good. But in the e…

Post by noobermin » Thu, Nov 24, 2016, 5:21 AM UTC

mveety wrote: post #20

noobermin wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Random question for you, how does the shell experience on FreeBSD compare to MacOS? Linux?

A shell is a shell for the most part. The details can be a bit different (like your $PATH), but otherwise its largely the same.

   rm -rf somedir/

   rm somedir/ -rf

Post by verandaguy » Thu, Nov 24, 2016, 5:28 AM UTC

jsjohnst wrote: post #12

95014_refugee wrote: post #10

"using a custom [FreeBSD] kernel seems tricky in a VMWare/VirtualBox VM" This flipped a set-once bit, making the rest of the article essentially unreadable due to zero confidence in the writer's technical skill. Also, the lack of "late 2011" in the title makes it pretty misleading.

I thought the exact same thing. It's trivially simple to run custom kernels. Further, with currentish versions of OSX, you don't even need VMware/VB. The built-in hypervisor works good enough without crash prone kexts like in the alternative in my experience. Not sure if you read the rest of the article, but it didn't do much to instill technical competence after that point either.

Post by meekins » Thu, Nov 24, 2016, 5:42 AM UTC

wwweston wrote: post #17

> Six years later, it less and less "Just Works", started turning into spyware and nagware, and doesn't need much less maintenance than Linux desktop — at least for my work, which is system administration and software development, probably it is better for the mythical End User person. Work needed to get software I need running is not less obscure than work I'd need to do on Linux or othe Unix-like system.... GUI tha…

Post by aorth » Thu, Nov 24, 2016, 6:26 AM UTC

loeg wrote: post #24

noobermin wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

try rm -rf somedir/ vs rm somedir/ -rf Linux (the former) allows me to be lazy while MacOS (the latter) forces me to hit crtl-a and insert -rf.

GNU rm (coreutils) vs BSD rm.