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Understanding OS X Kernel Internals
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."
"OS virtualization is going to kill off the native OS X software market"
Ahh, and welcome back to another thrilling episode of "doesn't know what the fuck they're on about" theatre!
Honestly. OSV is SLOW compared to native. No one wants slow.
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Before anyone starts spouting off again about Mac OS X being "slow by design" or somesuch, read this article by an Apple engineer that investigates those claims.
somebody must have mispelled "book commercial" as "presentation".
there's nothing really new in that presentation, most of slashdotters know this stuff already, the only thing that we didn't know as of yet is that you can mispell "book commercial" in such an interesting way.
you can "troll" or "flamebait" my post, but this is the way that it is.
I'd tell you the chances of this story being a dupe, but you wouldn't like it.
I looked at the "presentation" and no, it doesn't do a very good job of explaining anything. Maybe combined with an extensive lecture to explain what the hell he's talking about would make it a bit more clear. From what I saw it was basically just enumerating the different components. Then I noticed the second to last slide. It's basically an ad for a book coming out.
Maybe it's just me though. Did anyone else find it extremely enlightening?