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Installing PC-BSD on a MacBook Pro
Dual Booting is a nice guy, once you get to know him.
Chances are, if you’ve got an Intel based mac, you’ve given some serious thought to dual booting, or you’ve done it already. Setting up Boot Camp and installing Windows XP or even Vista is hardly even a project. And with Apple handing you a driver disk, it’s not even tough to figure out things like graphics and wireless cards.
So maybe you’ve thought about installing and dual booting something OpenSource, like PC-BSD. It should work, right? It’s easy enough to do on a non-Apple system, and frees you from the Windows experience.
And why shouldn’t it work? Apple, after all, laid down the rails for OS X on what’s essentially FreeBSD. Okay okay, It’s Darwin. But Darwin is more or less just FreeBSD with out of date code. And hey, PC-BSD really is FreeBSD! It’s a match made in heaven, I’m telling you.
What you might not expect is that installing PC-BSD is almost as easy as installing Windows. It took some doing, and several reinstalls, and an accidental power loss, but I’m successfully dual booting MacOS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and PC-BSD 7.1 (Galileo). You too can live the dream!
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James T. Nixon III
Lol, I know right!?
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Matt Olander
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alan
One Question Habra version The 3 cds of the PC-BSD 8.0 Hubble Edition
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Shaul
I would have to completely disagree with what you say how good PC-BSD is. And for the record, I do not use Linux, I do not have Linux installed on any systems. With the code they develop on top of FreeBSD for PC-BSD has consistency issue, and just don’t think they pay close enough attention to code correctness, I think it gets sluggish. Although my first choice is always to use OpenBSD on everything, I have set up FreeBSD as a desktop system. All I do is select minimal install, populate ports and source, patch the system, compile KDE4 from ports, and I find everything runs better and quicker that way. Once Firefox has been compiled from ports, I have seen it load instantaneously when you select it from KMenu. With PCBSD being developed for people who don’t know any tech stuff, and their own lack of proper auditing of code in the manner of say OpenBSD, I see definite performance issues, and some speed issues. I think it just gets bogged down. So that is why I would definitely disagree with what you say about how good PC-BSD is.