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John Abreau wrote: > OP asks about wiping MacOSX off his Apple hardware and replacing it with Linux. Will, the OP, never said anything about wiping or replacing anything. > You tell him "Linux desktops suck, install FreeBSD instead". I did not. I copy-paste: > Reason two: Every Intel-based Macintosh ships with a FreeBSD-based > operating system already installed on it. All that's missing is an X > server and a Ports collection. The former can be had by installing > XQuartz, and the latter by installing MacPorts. That will get you about > 98% of what you'll find in a Linux distribution without having to deal > with proprietary hardware drivers and desktop environments that make > Windows 8 look swell. Unless you want to: MacPorts has Gnome 2 (maybe > 3), KDE 3 and 4, and Xfce 4.6. I cannot see how you got from "leave OS X on the system and install XQuartz and MacPorts" to "wipe OS X and install FreeBSD". Perhaps I am blind after all? -- Rich P.
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