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Understanding OS X Kernel Internals

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the knowing-more-about-the-insides dept.

jglidell writes "The OS X kernel has been in the news alot this past year, whether it's why its slow, Mach/micro-kernel makes it bad, it's going closed source and what not. Amit Singh has put up a new presentation on the innards of OS X. It does a pretty good job of summing up the OS X kernel architecture, and has some pretty detailed diagrams... for instance they show that there are so many process/threads layers in OS X. So if you are in the mood for doing some OS studying then head over."

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  1. Re:huh? by GroinWeasel · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Editor's drunk. Hypocrite.

  2. Re:Poetry is the reason for slowness by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    And wasting their time on lame fat/suit vs hip/cool commercials is another reason why.
    You ain't kidding.

    I know a number of people who were thinking of getting an Apple who were turned away by those commercials. Between the claims about viruses (which they have anti-virus for already), the claim about bundled software (Which they've already got free (gratis mostly, some libre, not that they know or care about the difference) software equivalents), and overall whiney arrogance potrayed in the commercials, they decided that their Windows computer was already good enough, and Mac really didn't do anything new.
  3. Re:Poetry is the reason for slowness... SURE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ...The 'number of people' that you know can't _really_ be that serious about buying a new computer if some goofy ads caused them to band together, revolt, and refuse to take their medicine...

    Get serious guy... Ads stop them from buying a Mac but Vista delays, security holes, and focusing on a game machine don't turn someone off of buying a Windows PC?

    If I could mark you as a 'troll' I would but I'm just a lowly 'a. coward' here...

  4. mo37 down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    PerforMing.' Even

  5. Re:Poetry is the reason for slowness by Overly+Critical+Guy · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    You're right, the composition of that poem took the entire development staff at Apple to complete.

    We should all switch from Apple's "crappy kernel" to the wonderful Linux kernel, which is now so buggy even its major developers agree it needs a bug fix cycle.

    --
    "Sufferin' succotash."