Re: MacBook Pro w/NetBSD???
Paul Newhouse <[email protected]> Sat, 27 Oct 2007 14:13:23 -0700
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Thanks to all for the information. It's making this purchase a much more simplistic decision. Paul N. > > On 2007-10-25, Paul Newhouse <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Has anyone tried running NetBSD on a MacBook Pro? > > Either native or under Parallels? > > I've run NetBSD on a MacBook under Parallels; now I'm running it under > VMware Fusion. Both work fine, but I prefer VMware now as it allows me > too use all keys on the keyboard. With Parallels, even though you can > use Command in the guest operating system, it passes it also on to the > Mac; this makes it effectively impossible to use Command as Meta, e.g., > Parallels will quit when you try to refill text in Emacs ... > > BTW, for synching NetBSD's time to that of the Mac, I'm using timed, > which, if you ask me, is a much better choice for this kind of task than > ntp. > > Greetings > > -- > Michael Piotrowski, M.A. <[email protected]> > Public key at <http://www.dynalabs.de/mxp/pubkey.txt> (ID 0x1614A044) >