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Date:      Thu, 28 Jun 2001 07:13:55 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Gallagher <mgllghr@bu.edu>
To:        Yair Benita <Y.Benita@pharm.uu.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ports on MacOS X
Message-ID:  <Pine.A41.4.10.10106280710450.145192-100000@acstmp.bu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010628085315.3AE7C22A99@mail.pharm.uu.nl>

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I wouldn't think so.  Despite some BSD underneith OSX, it's not FreeBSD.  
I'd stick with ports specific to OSX, or try building stuff from
the original source.  The FreeBSD ports are FreeBSD specific.  (They
won't even run on other normal BSD systems, without some tweaking.)

~mike

On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Yair Benita wrote:

> Hi,
> I am wondering if I can install the FreeBSD ports on a MacOS X system. 
> Can I treat this system as a standard FreeBSD machine?
> Thanks,
> Yair Benita
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