[SDBUG] Mac Mini?

[Ron Rosson]

For starters I am a proud owner of a mini. (http://www.oneinsane.net  
is running on it) The choice between a mini and a MacBook Pro depends  
what you need the machine for. Now with that said if I needed a  
portable I would get me a MacBook Pro but at this point in time my G4  
Powerbook is doing just fine. I am not a believer of tainting my  
Apple product with a non Apple OS unless I was doing it  
virtualization ala Parallels (http://www.parallels.com). When I need  
an OS I load it up in there. Current loaded images are Windows XP  
(Visio and Project), CentOS (Testing apps for work) and PC-BSD (Just  
loaded t to check out the experience so I can find out if I should  
recommend it to others over linux)

Currently right now there are two different package systems for OSX.  
They are fink (http://fink.sf.net) and darwinports (http:// 
darwinports.opendarwin.org). I have been using darwinports for over  
two years. It is the closer of the two to a BSD like port system.  
Fink to me feels like a linux package system. (My opinion) Take each  
one for a run and chose the one that fits your needs best.

-Ron

P.S. When I have a free moment I blog about the things I am into on  
my website (http://www.oneinsane.net (shameless plug))

On Jun 11, 2006, at 9:17 PM, Peter Leftwich wrote:

> Hi guys.  I might be interested in getting a Mac Mini.  Can it  
> mount HDD's that have ufs (44bsd) partitions, ext Linux, and ext2/ 
> ext3 Linux partitions?  Surely it can mount MSDOS and FAT32,  
> right??  Do you recommend a MacBook Pro (they overheat) over Mac  
> Mini?  Thanks everyone!
>
> P.S. Which packages can be pkg_add'ed to OS X?
>
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