[SDBUG] Mac Mini?

[Matthew T. Lager]

Yeah very good points. I quickly learned not to administer my Mac OS X 
system like a FreeBSD system. Use the Apple GUI tools provided first, 
hack second, thats the best advice I ever decided to follow :)

Matt

Tony Sterrett wrote:
> Yeah true but (this is big but), some of the things work differently 
> so trust but verify. things like fstab which it doesn't use. xinetd 
> obsolete, and how it starts things.
>
> And not to go into a tirade but I question apples switch to intel. It 
> would be nice to have another processor widely available.
>
>
>> I have a Mac Mini Intel Duo Core with 1 gig ram. I love it, don't 
>> find the need to install another OS on it. Mac OS X has a nice GUI, 
>> plus the underlining BSD OS w/ Darwin Ports is pretty freaking sleek, 
>> especially if your already used to BSD. Apple throwing in X11 and 
>> Xcode (GCC, etc) right on the install CD is very nice too. Though I 
>> wouldn't mind seeing FreeBSD install on these little buggers for 
>> "appliance" purposes (firewalls, routers, etc). Although they only 
>> have one internal NIC so it could be a little tough.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Matthew T. Lager
>>
>> J. Cordaro wrote:
>>
>>> I have one of the PPC mac minis.  I don't know if the
>>> Intel Core Duos changed but on the ppc machines the
>>> boot partition has to be hfs+ or it won't boot.  At
>>> the time NetBSD did not do this and it was a pain to
>>> get it to boot.  I was able to get Fedora running on
>>> the thing quite easily. 
>>> http://www.redhat.com/magazine/007may05/features/mac-mini/#fedora-disk-setup-partition 
>>>
>>> has more info on the powerpc install process for
>>> fedora.
>>>
>>> If I were going to buy a laptop, for the money apple
>>> charges you could get a 3lb laptop that runs a BSD
>>> just as good as the core duo mac pros do.
>>>
>>> regards,
>>> Jay Cordaro
>>> --- Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster at Video2Video.Com> 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?
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Peter Leftwich, Owner
>>>> Video2Video Services
>>>> Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039, USA
>>>> http://Www.Video2Video.Com
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