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QuarkXPress 6 For Mac OS X

Posted by Hemos on from the start-your-printing dept.

MikeXpop writes "Apple's front page shows that QuarkXPress has been announced for Mac OS X and will be available as of next week. Anyone else getting a flashback to when Diablo II was in stores?"

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  1. Re:This was by andrewski · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Some of the bugs that have been encountered on OS X only happen on HFS+. I have a feeling that their VFS module for HFS+ still has some interesting bugs left within. Again, speed is about equal for both formats, at least on my machine, and again I am coming from Linux and Free / NetBSD here so don't assume I need your crufty app anyway! For fuck's sake, the TCP stack is 'largely a byproduct of having BSD code' along with a good portion of the rest of the system.

    Don't even cry to me about case sensitivity. That's the stupidest thing. Files only have names so that HUMANS can easily deal with them. Otherwise they'd all have numbers -- it's all the same to the computer, right?

    Are you fucking retarded? They already do! They call these 'numbers' inodes. Maybe you should grab a pen and some paper here and write some fo this down. Files have one or more names so programs can interact with them. Files can be manipulated by more than one program in the real world. Case sensitivity does indeed have uses. If you don't like having to use caps, then don't name your file with caps! You are a whiny little bitch, ain't ya?

    No, I have a real reason for using UFS. It has a mature implementation on OS X, and I experience no strangeness from it on the network with other boxen. It is also a relatively long-lived filesystem, whereas a HFS+ partition will tend to accumulate unused but UNALLOCATABLE disk space over time, thus keeping slime like Symantec in business.

    HFS+ isn't a toy filesystem exactly, but it needs some serious overhaul. It was almost as if it were designed with the occasional reformat as a necessary design choice.

    Since the filesystem layer is fully virtualized, we shall see newer and more interesting formats than HFS+ in future versions of OS X.

    Hopefully.