FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro

ekianjo wrote: post #3

> back then I grew tired of Linux desktop (which is going to be MASSIVE NEXT YEAR, at least since 2001) The snark was really unnecessary.

it was good

Re: FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro

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Post by boterock » Thu, Nov 24, 2016, 3:02 AM UTC

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 end it was to annoying to do often. If only FreeBSD supported that wireless chip, I'd be writing this on FreeBSD. When the wayland and updated intel drivers come to FreeBSD maybe i'll try it again, but wifi is a deal breaker.

I always wondered why there isn't wifi drivers for this macbook in FreeBSD if Fedora had them (and AFAIK Fedora only ships open drivers)

Re: FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro

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Post by wavefunction » Thu, Nov 24, 2016, 3:05 AM UTC

stunts for stunts' sake

Re: FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro

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Post by dataharry » Thu, Nov 24, 2016, 3:13 AM UTC

That was anticlimactic

Re: FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro

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Post by Ar-Curunir » Thu, Nov 24, 2016, 3:14 AM UTC

ekianjo wrote: post #3

> back then I grew tired of Linux desktop (which is going to be MASSIVE NEXT YEAR, at least since 2001) The snark was really unnecessary.

I agree, I've been running Arch Linux on my MBP Retina for 2+ years now almost without problems. I bet if the OP tried Linux, they'd be absolutely fine.

Re: FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro

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Post by JeremyMorgan » Thu, Nov 24, 2016, 3:24 AM UTC

I really want to try this out. I was a heavy FreeBSD user for many years in the 2000s, and I drifted back into Linux. One thing I will say for FreeBSD, it's harder to get dialed in but once it is, it's very solid. I think with enough tinkering FreeBSD would run really well on a MBP, I just wonder if it would provide a lot of advantages over OSX to make it worth the time.

Re: FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro

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Post by 95014_refugee » Thu, Nov 24, 2016, 3:24 AM UTC

"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.