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phyro

Hey all,

I was just wondering if someone could point out the things that are in of Freebsd that are NOT in mac osx?

My question was sort of.. Is it worth going through all the headache of installing bsd on a macbook pro? or does osx already have most of that, that i need?

IE: running servers, apache, pureftp, icecast ect (I know those are more of ports) do they all work? is there a "ports" collection for osx? I was wondering about some of the more useful internal stuff such as (PF) /etc/pf.conf for example.

I am fairly familiar with free/open bsd but don't have a clue about mac

Thanks
 
At this point I think it's safe to say that MACOSX is a different OS than FreeBSD.

If I were you with your hardware I would run both OSes on that box.
 
phyro said:
IE: running servers, apache, pureftp, icecast ect (I know those are more of ports) do they all work? is there a "ports" collection for osx? I was wondering about some of the more useful internal stuff such as (PF) /etc/pf.conf for example.
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Apache, MySQL and a few other things are just a mouse click away. Beside that there's macports and fink. OS-X doesn't have PF but it does have IPFW.

In any case, http://hintsforums.macworld.com/
 
As of 10.7 (Lion) it has PF aswell as IPFW. Was mentioned before in the forums.

Most significant thing it is lacking is ZFS support, even thought I read somewhere that someone is working to port it to OSX.
 
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