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Plethora of New User Space Filesystems For Mac OS X
DaringDan writes "As part of the recent MacFUSE 2.0 release Amit Singh has added support for an insane number of filesystems on the Mac. This video from Google and this blog post pretty much explain everything in detail but to sum-up Singh has written a new filesystem called AncientFS which lets you mount a ton of UNIX file formats starting from the very first version of UNIX. Even more interesting is that they have also taken Linux kernel implementations of filesystems like ufs, sysv-fs, minix-fs and made them work in user-space on the Mac, which means its now possible to read disks from OSes like FreeBSD, Solaris and NeXT on OS X. ext2/ext3 don't seem to be on the list but apparently the source for everything is provided, so hopefully some enterprising soul can apply the same techniques to ext2. One of their demos even has the old UNIX kernel compiled directly on the Mac through the original PDP C compiler by somehow executing the PDP binaries on OS X!"
So it supports and insane number of filesystems just not the two most popular ones?
Insane's the word...
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Too bad it for the mac, lets make it work under Ubuntu so it can be useful to those of us who don't want to overpay for our hardware.
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Spoken like a person who knows nothing about the joys of coding and having fun seeing what you can do with your computer system. Congratulations on working a bit of flamebait in there too - your comment is a double whammy of stupidity.
And then I actually used it ( 8 hours a day at work ), and realized it was fantastic. I ditched my Slackware running thinkpad for a powerbook, and never looked back.
I used it side-by-side with Windows XP, 8 hours a day at work, and what really aggravated me about OSX is that if you don't like the way it behaves you are forced to resort to stupid, hackish extensions to make it do what you like, just like you had to do on classic MacOS (I have spent more hours in INIT hell than anyone should have to, but that's the distant past now, right?) and just like you have to do on Windows, except to be honest, the Windows interface has less failings. Being able to resize the window in the Windows/Motif style is just absolutely necessary and yes, I have installed the flaky hack that makes it happen on OSX, and no I am not impressed.
What boggles my mind about Mac lovers is that it's Steve's way or the highway, and yet you profess to adore it and beg for more - and Apple without Steve Jobs is like Penn without Teller or something. It just doesn't work, right?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"