OS X uses the XNU kernel from NextStep which is a hybrid of the Mach microkernel, some components from BSD (the network stack and the virtual file system) and a device driver architecture which was completely new for OS X. Over the years, a lot of the BSD code has been rewritten with the introduction of more granular locking and better abstractions for the file system and networking APIs.
However, there could be something in the summary on Slashdot, quite easily. The first word is "KDevelop". That could easily have been a link to the project front page, or it could have been expanded to "The KDevelop IDE" and everybody would be happy.
There is a huge amount of FOSS that has an entire "front" web page that tells people in exquisite detail what changes have been made, who contributed, how others can get involved and what bugs are outstanding without ever mentioning what the hell the project does
KDevelop is a free, open source IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, Max OS X and other Unix flavours. It is a feature-full, plugin extensible IDE for C/C++ and other programming languages. It is based on KDevPlatform, and the KDE and Qt libraries and is under development since 1998.
When he made the promise, the development team consisted only of himself. Now there is a whole company with a number of employees who depend on Minecraft licence sales for their salaries. If Notch open sources Minecraft, all these people will lose their jobs.
So it's probably greed, but not necessarily. In any case, sales haven't tailed off yet, so he hasn't broken his promise.
You think 1m AUD is big? A couple of years back I was on a project for the British government where they burned nearly that much every week. In the end they had literally burned it, they would have got better value because at least it would have kept the building warm.
Well of course you'd be absolutely insane to try to put sendmail and Apache in the same address space. In fact, sendmail forks (or at least used to fork when I last looked at it 10 years ago) to serve each incoming connection, so it's insane to try to restrict sendmail on its own to only one address space.
I thought my mention of kdaemonhostd (sendmail in the kernel, yay!) plus the fact that daemonhostd is derived from svchost(.exe) would be enough to show the post is not entirely serious.
Not sure about that, but they are inventing a new way to run services. They will have a new program called daemonhostd which can host multiple services. All you have to do is recompile sendmail and apache as shared object libraries and daemonhostd will dynamically load and run them in the same process to save resources.
As a further refinement, they are also writing kdaemonhostd which is exactly the same but it all runs in kernel space to improve performance.
The systemd people are (as far as I can tell) writing replacements for almost all the standard services that run on Linux because they want to take over the World bwahaha!
Bullshit. Why should I pay more for being taller? This isn't a choice, is it? What the airlines are doing is essentially discrimination.
Why should short people subsidise tall people? That's an alternate way of looking at it. If you move all the seats further apart, prices go up and short people are effectively paying for leg room they don't need.
Let me guess: You have a large collection of "nerdy" t-shirts? Most of those are about as funny, insightful, and entertaining as XKCD. You know this already, as I'm sure when you're shopping on whatever website sells that stuff you like some and reject others. The difference between those and XKCD, of course, is that the t-shirt shop doesn't come with a personality for you to worship.
The "sudo make me a sandwich" one? Just not funny. I "get" the "joke", it's just not even a little bit funny. It's "Ha, ha! That's a thing that I know about! Familiarity for the win!"
The "Bobby Tables" strip also isn't funny. For the same reasons.
We've actually paid more tax per head, and received less back per head, than England for every one of the last 110 years, which is as far back as the available data goes. So it's long before the discovery of oil.
Citation needed there I think.
However, that's not the point. The United Kingdom has, through imperialism and military adventurism, very reasonably made itself the second most hated nation on the planet. I'm tired of being embarrassed to travel on a UK passport.
Mostly on the back of following George W Bush on his crazy adventures. Of course, the government at the time was being led by a Scot and the man in charge of the money was a Scot too.
Any competent C programmer can maintain any C code
OpenSSL is written in C. I am a competent C programmer. I don't think I could maintain that code base. The Open BSD people are probably more competent C programmers than me and they felt they couldn't maintain the code base without first ripping most of it out.
The Premier League / FA is a bunch of racists. The hitjob they did on Luis Suarez for the use of his non-offensive word negrito (ie blackie, a South American equivalent of calling someone Red) smacks of the worst of Jim Crow. England should and eventually will be ashamed of this.
The majority of people who work in office environments in large organisations have computers that are locked down in some way. You can't tell them to just download Libre Office because they are not allowed to.
Slashdot Mirror
Err, no.
OS X uses the XNU kernel from NextStep which is a hybrid of the Mach microkernel, some components from BSD (the network stack and the virtual file system) and a device driver architecture which was completely new for OS X. Over the years, a lot of the BSD code has been rewritten with the introduction of more granular locking and better abstractions for the file system and networking APIs.
OS 9 had nothing to do with NextStep.
However, there could be something in the summary on Slashdot, quite easily. The first word is "KDevelop". That could easily have been a link to the project front page, or it could have been expanded to "The KDevelop IDE" and everybody would be happy.
There is a huge amount of FOSS that has an entire "front" web page that tells people in exquisite detail what changes have been made, who contributed, how others can get involved and what bugs are outstanding without ever mentioning what the hell the project does
From the KDevelop Front Page.
KDevelop
is a free, open source IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, Max OS X and other Unix flavours. It is a feature-full, plugin extensible IDE for C/C++ and other programming languages. It is based on KDevPlatform, and the KDE and Qt libraries and is under development since 1998.
That seems fairly self explanatory to me.
When he made the promise, the development team consisted only of himself. Now there is a whole company with a number of employees who depend on Minecraft licence sales for their salaries. If Notch open sources Minecraft, all these people will lose their jobs.
So it's probably greed, but not necessarily. In any case, sales haven't tailed off yet, so he hasn't broken his promise.
You think 1m AUD is big? A couple of years back I was on a project for the British government where they burned nearly that much every week. In the end they had literally burned it, they would have got better value because at least it would have kept the building warm.
Well of course you'd be absolutely insane to try to put sendmail and Apache in the same address space. In fact, sendmail forks (or at least used to fork when I last looked at it 10 years ago) to serve each incoming connection, so it's insane to try to restrict sendmail on its own to only one address space.
I thought my mention of kdaemonhostd (sendmail in the kernel, yay!) plus the fact that daemonhostd is derived from svchost(.exe) would be enough to show the post is not entirely serious.
I did do a quick scan of the web site to make sure the idea is not real. However, it's possible that I missed it.
Not sure about that, but they are inventing a new way to run services. They will have a new program called daemonhostd which can host multiple services. All you have to do is recompile sendmail and apache as shared object libraries and daemonhostd will dynamically load and run them in the same process to save resources.
As a further refinement, they are also writing kdaemonhostd which is exactly the same but it all runs in kernel space to improve performance.
But also,
so a student developer has taken to implementing the APIs of important systemd components so that they translate into native systemd calls
A d too many.
Because systemd now has a replacement for ntpd.
The systemd people are (as far as I can tell) writing replacements for almost all the standard services that run on Linux because they want to take over the World bwahaha!
Bullshit. Why should I pay more for being taller? This isn't a choice, is it? What the airlines are doing is essentially discrimination.
Why should short people subsidise tall people? That's an alternate way of looking at it. If you move all the seats further apart, prices go up and short people are effectively paying for leg room they don't need.
The answer to a security question is just another password that's easy to guess.
How do you propose getting an ssh connection to fix the issue with the CLI equivalent?
The X server runs on your client PC.
That's how X works.
No it doesn't. You need the X client libraries installed, but no X server needs to run on the server.
Heartbleed could expose server side private keys to the attacker. I seriously doubt that any IE bug could possibly be that bad.
Let me guess: You have a large collection of "nerdy" t-shirts? Most of those are about as funny, insightful, and entertaining as XKCD. You know this already, as I'm sure when you're shopping on whatever website sells that stuff you like some and reject others. The difference between those and XKCD, of course, is that the t-shirt shop doesn't come with a personality for you to worship.
That's pretty insulting.
The "sudo make me a sandwich" one? Just not funny. I "get" the "joke", it's just not even a little bit funny. It's "Ha, ha! That's a thing that I know about! Familiarity for the win!"
The "Bobby Tables" strip also isn't funny. For the same reasons.
Wrong on both counts.
I hear we've already tried nuking Manure's home ground but nobody could tell the difference.
It's a bit presumptuous of him to be setting out policy for the first government of independent Scotland. Is it not going to be a democracy?
We've actually paid more tax per head, and received less back per head, than England for every one of the last 110 years, which is as far back as the available data goes. So it's long before the discovery of oil.
Citation needed there I think.
However, that's not the point. The United Kingdom has, through imperialism and military adventurism, very reasonably made itself the second most hated nation on the planet. I'm tired of being embarrassed to travel on a UK passport.
Mostly on the back of following George W Bush on his crazy adventures. Of course, the government at the time was being led by a Scot and the man in charge of the money was a Scot too.
Any competent C programmer can maintain any C code
OpenSSL is written in C. I am a competent C programmer. I don't think I could maintain that code base. The Open BSD people are probably more competent C programmers than me and they felt they couldn't maintain the code base without first ripping most of it out.
Also Rugby football with two subdivisions (league and union) and Gaelic football.
The Premier League / FA is a bunch of racists. The hitjob they did on Luis Suarez for the use of his non-offensive word negrito (ie blackie, a South American equivalent of calling someone Red) smacks of the worst of Jim Crow. England should and eventually will be ashamed of this.
Bite me...
The majority of people who work in office environments in large organisations have computers that are locked down in some way. You can't tell them to just download Libre Office because they are not allowed to.