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Mac OS X and FreeBSD

Postby Antony » Sun 14 Mar, 2004 7:14 am

Finally, I installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 on Mac OS X :jaguar:
FreeBSD 5.2.1 on Virtual PC 6.1 under Mac OS X 10.2.8. The problem, XFree86 does not work. I think I need to check if I installed all necessarily packages.
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Mac OS X is actually base on Darwin, a version of UNIX based on BSD 4.4 Lite, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and the Mach microkernel. And again, UNIX is not Linux.
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Postby DJGM » Sun 14 Mar, 2004 10:41 am

FreeBSD is not a Linux distro. It's actually a variant of UNIX. Meanwhile, Linux is a UNIX clone.
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Postby Antony » Sun 14 Mar, 2004 7:16 pm

Thanks DJGM, but I never said FreeBSD is Linux.
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FreeBSD on Mac, now working!

Postby Antony » Sat 27 Mar, 2004 7:39 am

FreeBSD on Mac, now working!

Finally, I got XFree running on FreeBSD 5.2.1. FreeBSD 5.2.1 was installed under Virtual PC 6 for Mac.

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What was the problem? I did not configure the video card, the monitor, and the screen :(
I thought I did.

Well, running anything under Virtual PC is slow, particularly my G4 is slow.
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Postby Antony » Sat 22 May, 2004 8:27 am

With the new PowerMac G4 (dual 1.42). As reported in Virtual PC for Mac performance thread. The speed running in new Mac is a lot faster than the old Mac. Of course with minimum eye candy effects, the FreeBSD is even smoother. :-)

Note, this thread is split from How to install Linux under Virtual PC.
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