QUESTION: for a BSD beginner (very familiar with Linux) what is the best way to run BSD on a iMac running El Capitan? There seems to be at least a few choices.
All I know about BSD is I read many parts of an older FreeBSD install guide, have pmake running under Linux (and some older BSD apps compiled using it), understand a few kernel libc differences. I'm definitely sided with making world + porting source vs dpkg bins (linux) and source that was never meant to definitely build "outside the keyed admin. build servers" (debian).
#1 run FreeBSD in a virtual container (what is a good URL learn to do this?). I'm unsure if BSD will run "fine but slower" or "no - your not going to get the real experience"
#2 what is hypervisor and does Mac have that? Is it runtime switch between OS or bootime?
#3 run FreeBSD from bootcamp (install to separate partition), boot into BSD and install from (usb flash device)
#4 run macports bsd ports. I'm unsure if this is "running bsd" or not. I don't "need bsd kernel" on an iMac but do want to run at least BSD code I find free on Apple's free source server.
#5 just use xcode with BSD source on Apple's free source server? If I do that will I get "enough FreeBSD" to sandbox in? Or no that's worse than macports and not really BSD?
QUESTION: what is the best way to ease into BSD for a beginner on a recent iMac?
All I know about BSD is I read many parts of an older FreeBSD install guide, have pmake running under Linux (and some older BSD apps compiled using it), understand a few kernel libc differences. I'm definitely sided with making world + porting source vs dpkg bins (linux) and source that was never meant to definitely build "outside the keyed admin. build servers" (debian).
#1 run FreeBSD in a virtual container (what is a good URL learn to do this?). I'm unsure if BSD will run "fine but slower" or "no - your not going to get the real experience"
#2 what is hypervisor and does Mac have that? Is it runtime switch between OS or bootime?
#3 run FreeBSD from bootcamp (install to separate partition), boot into BSD and install from (usb flash device)
#4 run macports bsd ports. I'm unsure if this is "running bsd" or not. I don't "need bsd kernel" on an iMac but do want to run at least BSD code I find free on Apple's free source server.
#5 just use xcode with BSD source on Apple's free source server? If I do that will I get "enough FreeBSD" to sandbox in? Or no that's worse than macports and not really BSD?
QUESTION: what is the best way to ease into BSD for a beginner on a recent iMac?
