Thanks for the response, LibreQuest. The information there is about the same age as the laptop itself:) It is a very nice machine. The 17" 4:3 screen is very easy on my old eyes. I have been trying a few variants of Linux, and BSD in hopes of keeping it in service. Again thanks for the link.

Sorry to barge in. I am trying to install GhostBSD on a 2010 17" MBP. I made a USB stick and it starts up just fine. All the text starts scrolling up the screen until it gets to "loading wpa supplicant" at which point the machine freezes up. I tried starting with an ethernet cable plu...

I have an old Lenovo X220 tablet. I installed FreeBSD on it mainly following some tutorials by Robonoogie on YouTube. As with most of my first tries at something it did not turn out as well as I hoped. I decided for the second try I would use GhostBSD. I enjoyed the install and was very happy to see...