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Comment by ggm

4 years ago

Their target is existing MacOS users. Thats a BSD derived kernel and OS API and the model is quite different. Making a Linux kernel look right, is a path ?Gentoo? took some time ago, and I am unsure you can call it an unqualified success.

"does it run homebrew" is my lead question

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sofixa  4 years ago

> "does it run homebrew" is my lead question

Or even better, a better package manager that isn't slow as hell and understands semver.

  • eyelidlessness  4 years ago

    Heh. Or even “Xpm install ___” doesn’t mean I want to update thousands of unrelated packages I’ve installed directly or transitively. Regardless of their semver compatibilities.

    Edit for people using macOS: if you want to install one thing without waiting to update unfold numbers of other things, hilariously Cakebrew (a GUI frontend for homebrew) will let you do that with homebrew as the package manager.

sneak  4 years ago

Existing macOS users have Apple hardware. Does FreeBSD support recent x64 Apple gear well? Last I looked even Linux had less than perfect support.

The situation is even more Linux-centric on Mx.

  • ggm  4 years ago

    There is a huge community who port MacOS onto Intel architecture laptops with special set-aside hacks on the Apple .ISO files.

    I think, thats the target. not 'run it on my mac' but 'be like a mac, running on my Lenovo PC, which already supports FreeBSD well[*]'

    [*] does not always work well with blob demanding devices == 802.11/GPU