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Understanding Mac OS X Kernel

Posted by timothy on from the deep-in-the-heart-of-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Kernelthread.com has published a flash presentation overview of the Mac OS X kernel. Its title is 'A Tour of the Mac OS X Kernel' and it also covers Tiger features. Maybe interesting to note is that the slides are from a talk given to the NSA. Well, there is a nice security architecture diagram towards the end of the presentation."

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  1. So, HFS+ can be case-sensitive... by rthille · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    How the hell do I turn that on. Case preserving sucks ass when interacting with case-sensitive system...
    Use FTP to mount a remote webserver. Attempt to copy all the files to a local directory for modification. Finder complains 'some files differ in case and only one will be copied. Continue?" Would it be that fucking hard to list the files that conflict and give me the option to rename them? Jeeze.

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  2. What's The Point? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Over the next two years Apple's installed base is going to shrink and their margins are going to have to drop dramatically.

    All that money from the high margin hardware and the now slowing iPod sales are going to increasingly slow the OS development to the point where it is unlikely Apple will be able to continue their OS development.

    Of course there are still diehard Apple fans who are clinging to the fantasy that being forced to use Intel chips is going lead to cheap and fast Macs, but the writing is on the wall for OS X as we know it. Funding OS development is insanely expensive and Apple is going to lose the ability to continue it over the next couple of years.

    Some sort of partnership with Microsoft? And Apple layer on top of Linux? Dump everything but the iPod/iTMS stuff? Whatever it turns out to be, OS X as we currently know it has as much of a future as Apple now obsolete PPC based Macs. The OS X kernel is soon to be something of historical interest only.

    It's too bad Steve wouldn't cough up the cash for a mobile chip design from IBM, Apple is rolling in cash these days. Penny wise, pound foolish.