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You can use freecolor from ports. freecolor -o will get the job done the same way.

Mac OS X is essentially a FreeBSD userland ported to the Mach kernel. When it was ported, certain elements of NetBSD were used as well as GNU. Though, FreeBSD contains very little GNU. Mac OS X is a very good system, and aptly described as layers. The Unix layer is most important...

Oko, it depends on the metric. Several sources estimate OS X marketshare to be nearing 10%. It was around 8% last time I checked in the summer. I would like to know what relevance this thread poses to FreeBSD. Marketshare is not even a remotely decent metric of quality. Unix tradition...

Development has indeed started as indicated by the updates on the repository page.

Actually, that's the way people should buy hardware. Supporting random hardware with poor drivers is worse than supporting quality hardware with quality drivers, as the BSDs do.

FreeBSD all the way!

My laptop is a MacBook Pro running Mac OS X and my desktop is a Dell Optiplex GX620 running FreeBSD 7-STABLE. I have not had a single problem with the latter. In fact, it is practically the best system I've used in years.

I think the PC-BSD developers should work on laptops, rather than the FreeBSD developers. After all, PC-BSD does aim for the home marketshare. Since, PC-BSD does contribute its work back to FreeBSD and holds FreeBSD's longstanding devotion to quality very dearly, it's best to let them work on...

It's more or less the kernel driver that's problematic because it hasn't been ported. I know that the program itself compiles and runs to a degree.

The BSD and general Unix community have always been known for pragmatism. Fighting over licenses limits progress and is far from practical.

Oracle works fine using the Linux ABI layer, and posts from the Oracle forum suggest that this is the best option. The people at Oracle don't feel the need to port it over because it works rather well.