When was the last time heard of some serious (and I do mean serious) innovation in XNU? I didn't. OS kernels aren't Apple's core competency, as demonstrated by Classic OS design, and the failed project to rewrite it. They are good at selling experiences. UI. End-user visible architecture. They might as well run FreeBSD or Solaris under the hood. They don't care. The family silver is closed source. The userland.
Sorry for replying to my self, but it realized that with virtualized hardware and Win7 registry virtualization, my approach isn't nearly as intersting as when applied to XP, so there. Hell, you can go crazy and offload TCP connections to the host with an appropriate driver and virtio Ethenet dev. Why the hell run a firewall and shit when you can use a much more powerful TCP stack to begin with.
Here's a business idea - single purpose, hardware specialized X11 servers getting SCSI RDMA over Ethenet. Run Windows HVM Xen guests on server side, with FBSD/ZFS on dom0, with ro snapshot of the system partion of a base system, with each ~/ on a separate vdev. You still pay Windows licenses, but management is simplified, hardware upgrades as well. Run that on a ATAoE San, and your golden. The only non-commodity part is the thin client - probably a customized ARM SoC with a tweaked GPU. Oh, and to save on licensing - DIY Win7 terminal sever. Though that would require making only the boot files in the snapshot, and creating a directory junction with a context sensitive (ala HP-UX) filesystem (NFS tweak?) (see IFS in Windows) on a different partion on the same vdev as the user data. Each user sees his own version of the filesystem, and that version is contained in a single snapashotable vdev. Yes, I am in high school, yes I am virgin, and yes I am out of weed.:P Hope this seems interesting to you guys. I love OS architecture, though I'm not a programmer. X)
My hope is to get Xen in mainline for a quasi-microkernel. Though it would take some work - here is my initial concept - libfuse and as a domU guest, linux as dom0, and exporting the fuse kernel module interface as a vdev. Think about it - native ZFS and NTFS performance, no licensing issues. Don't forget - Xen is based on the Nemesis microkernel. And that's just the beginning... Any takers? I'm not much of a programmer...
You useless piece of trash, come over here so I can break you neck, steaming worthless pile of shit. And be quick about it, before I tear off your tiny dick and make you eat it.
Did Apple create CUPS? Hell, a couple of drivers are nice, but don't paint it the other way. Darwin is a freaking trinket. Have you seen the performance charts? HFS+? Mediocre. Have you seen it used anywhere? That's how valuable it is. Bonjour? A Zeroconf implementation? One that Linux distros also include? Nitro? Based on SquirrelFish? Yes they tweaked it. Yes it is good. But is an also ran. launchd? upstart(Ubuntu) and Solaris init are way more interesting. Libdispatch? Ah... finally something interesting. I'll give you that.
GStreamer. BTW, codec issues are not browser issues. The FF maintainers care about the browser. If you wanna tweak the code, replace Windows codec with a tweaked FOSS implementation.
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I didn't think the joke was that complicated... Mods having a bad day? :(
In Soviet Europe metric belong to you!
ebay must explicitly point to the developer.
The developer supplies source code to Apple.
When was the last time heard of some serious (and I do mean serious) innovation in XNU? I didn't. OS kernels aren't Apple's core competency, as demonstrated by Classic OS design, and the failed project to rewrite it. They are good at selling experiences. UI. End-user visible architecture. They might as well run FreeBSD or Solaris under the hood. They don't care. The family silver is closed source. The userland.
In the words of a great man: Real men don't need backups, they upload to a public FTP and let world mirror them.
Sorry for replying to my self, but it realized that with virtualized hardware and Win7 registry virtualization, my approach isn't nearly as intersting as when applied to XP, so there. Hell, you can go crazy and offload TCP connections to the host with an appropriate driver and virtio Ethenet dev. Why the hell run a firewall and shit when you can use a much more powerful TCP stack to begin with.
Here's a business idea - single purpose, hardware specialized X11 servers getting SCSI RDMA over Ethenet. Run Windows HVM Xen guests on server side, with FBSD/ZFS on dom0, with ro snapshot of the system partion of a base system, with each ~/ on a separate vdev. You still pay Windows licenses, but management is simplified, hardware upgrades as well. Run that on a ATAoE San, and your golden. The only non-commodity part is the thin client - probably a customized ARM SoC with a tweaked GPU. Oh, and to save on licensing - DIY Win7 terminal sever. Though that would require making only the boot files in the snapshot, and creating a directory junction with a context sensitive (ala HP-UX) filesystem (NFS tweak?) (see IFS in Windows) on a different partion on the same vdev as the user data. Each user sees his own version of the filesystem, and that version is contained in a single snapashotable vdev. :P
Yes, I am in high school, yes I am virgin, and yes I am out of weed.
Hope this seems interesting to you guys. I love OS architecture, though I'm not a programmer. X)
My hope is to get Xen in mainline for a quasi-microkernel. Though it would take some work - here is my initial concept - libfuse and as a domU guest, linux as dom0, and exporting the fuse kernel module interface as a vdev. Think about it - native ZFS and NTFS performance, no licensing issues. Don't forget - Xen is based on the Nemesis microkernel. And that's just the beginning... Any takers? I'm not much of a programmer...
You useless piece of trash, come over here so I can break you neck, steaming worthless pile of shit. And be quick about it, before I tear off your tiny dick and make you eat it.
A secretary, for instance.
How are shootouts bad? What's the alternative? Cowering and suffering because you ain't good at close combat?
How much does it cost compared to say, an average office drone's monthly paycheck?
Quartz and Cocoa.
Did Apple create CUPS? Hell, a couple of drivers are nice, but don't paint it the other way. Darwin is a freaking trinket. Have you seen the performance charts? HFS+? Mediocre. Have you seen it used anywhere? That's how valuable it is. Bonjour? A Zeroconf implementation? One that Linux distros also include? Nitro? Based on SquirrelFish? Yes they tweaked it. Yes it is good. But is an also ran. launchd? upstart(Ubuntu) and Solaris init are way more interesting. Libdispatch? Ah... finally something interesting. I'll give you that.
Yes.
Well, WebKit and Gecko offer similar functionality, right? What about a compatibility layer?
Doesn't that mean that car has to be Bluetooth? I'm confused.
GStreamer. BTW, codec issues are not browser issues. The FF maintainers care about the browser. If you wanna tweak the code, replace Windows codec with a tweaked FOSS implementation.
Can someone tell me how technically feasible it is to support FF extensions in Chrome?
FFS, GStreamer support DirectShow, and QuickTime as backends. Just use it.
Theora is easy on the CPU, except with mobile, softrendering is acceptable for nearly any machine.
The windows version gets more optimizations.
Aside from the US, who's the other?
Not with Galium3D, AFAIK. Linux graphics ftw!