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After deleting and moving enough junk, I bumped into the first obstacle: resizing the system volume. The plan was to use ~80GB of my 250GB main hard disk for FreeBSD, and leave rest to OSX. This was already trickier than expected (not only because I had to delete some stuff to make space, but that was also time-consuming). Preparing for Dual Bootįirst, we need some disk space.
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I have been installing FreeBSD 11-CURRENT snapshot 20150111 (there is a newer one already, but I've got mine already installed, and even managed to update it with a buildworld/installworld). I hope to get all of that working at least on a basic level.
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It is a MacBook Pro 13-inch, Late 2011 (MacBookPro8,1), 8GB RAM, optical drive exchanged to a second hard drive, attached to an Apple Thunderbolt Display (another reason not to get a new hardware), and with wireless Bluetooth Apple keyboard and touchpad. I've been asked on what hardware exactly do I do all of that. Won't hurt to try, worst case is I will learn something new and go back to OSX.
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I'll probably have a hard time figuring out how to use some closed software I need for work or fan: Flash player, Skype, Google Hangouts… Still, this list doesn't seem that big after all - and as long as I have Apple hardware, I'll keep the dual boot. Not sure about document viewers nowadays: Apple's Preview is nice and invisible. LibreOffice should be a good replacement for most of MS Office/iWork by now, but probably it doesn't match Keynote. After first start of Xorg I already cringe at font rendering (maybe it's configurable somewhere, though). I don't plan to get a new workstation soon. There's also a practical side: this is hardware that I have.
I want to try running an open operating system where I can safely expect that software won't insist on phoning home, syncing my data with a cloud, and won't nag me to enable features that require that if I choose to skip it. To see how much of a tradeoff will it be. It is a challenge to take hardware developed for OSX in particular, without much thought given to other operating systems, and designed NOT to make interoperability easy - and to get an open OS running. I'm not switching (yet), it is an ongoing experiment to see how much I can get running. I want this, and I want this integrated with Mutt, Irssi, Ekg2, Elinks… XXIst CENTURY IS HERE, GRAPHICAL TERMINALS REALIZED THEY CAN DISPLAY PICTURES.
And the final push was when I saw the Terminology demo, ran it on an old laptop that's already got FreeBSD installed, and found it working as advertised.
I want to try out custom kernel options (VIMAGE and RACCT), and using a custom kernel seems tricky in a VMWare/VirtualBox VM. Next reason is that I am working a lot on FreeBSD software, Jetpack being the most visible.
Again, this is from a sysadmin/developer kind of power user perspective power user, whose definition of "fun" includes spending 6 hours in the middle of the night figuring how to get dual boot working with UEFI.
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Either I came full circle in the last 15 years of my computer usage, or the OSX experience degraded in last 5 years. GUI that used to be nice and unintrusive, got annoying. I am finding myself turning away from GUI programs that I used to appreciate, and most of the time I use OSX to just run a terminal, Firefox, and Emacs. Work needed to get software I need running is not less obscure than work I'd need to do on Linux or othe Unix-like system. Six years later, it less and less Just Works, started turning into spyware and nagware, and doesn't need much less maintenance than Linux desktop - at least for my work, which is system administration and software development, probably it is better for the mythical End User person. Since 2008 or 2009 I work on Apple hardware and OS: back then I grew tired of Linux desktop (which is going to be MASSIVE NEXT YEAR, at least since 2001), and switched to something that Just Works.
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