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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."

3 of 57 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Worthless filesystems. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You must be one hell of a pornophile if your files are larger than 8,589,934,592 GB.

  2. Re:inside the kernel by green+pizza · · Score: 2, Insightful

    kernel's secret recipie
    You don't need 11 herbs and spices, that's for sure. "Seasoned Oven Fried Chicken" spiced with cheap McCormick Season-All Seasoned Salt from your local grocery store will give you almost the same flavor. As an added bonus, you can control exactly how much or how little grease you want! Take that, KFC!

  3. Re:* Encrypted swap (optional, uses AES) by 68kmac · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's an option in the "Security" panel of the System Preferences.