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Darwin was originally based on BSD code - there is no requirement to keep BSD code open.
Why does Apple continue to publish Darwin code then? I have always been curious.
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I guess you missed the whole lawsuit thing [0] that forced them to make (initially P2P) Facetime completely centralized at which point it was pointless to open it up. PS: If you're gonna hate on Apple, at least find some valid points about them to hate instead of just spreading bullshit. [0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/report-after-pat...
Apple did say they were opening it up; then they didn't. How's that bullshit? Even if they did have a legal excuse, that doesn't make it any less true. It could happen again.
For those who, like me, don't follow developments in this area closely: APFS is Apple's new filesystem, intended to be used across all of their devices (Macs, iOS, watchOS, etc). For Macs, it will be replacing HFS+, a direct descendant of the Hierarchical Filing System which has been used since 1985. (The original Macintosh Filing System, from 1984, was suitable only for floppy disks; among other things, it was a fla…
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I agree to a point, one factor that can help mitigate this however is using a quality SSD where it's onboard memory has ECC, I suspect Apple sees the near future of end user computing as gaining ECC for all memory by standard which is something I've wanting for years but games have been played by CPU manufacturers to prevent the use of high end desktop CPUs in server environments by I believe purposely kneecapping th…
> but games have been played by CPU manufacturers Plural? Intel and who else?
For those who, like me, don't follow developments in this area closely: APFS is Apple's new filesystem, intended to be used across all of their devices (Macs, iOS, watchOS, etc). For Macs, it will be replacing HFS+, a direct descendant of the Hierarchical Filing System which has been used since 1985. (The original Macintosh Filing System, from 1984, was suitable only for floppy disks; among other things, it was a fla…
So what features does the new filesystem bring?
If you ask what innovations APFS brings to the overall FS landscape, the answer is probably "none".
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FYI - HFS is capability of case sensitivity and is an option during formatting. I believe it even used to be the default.
HFS and HFS+ were never case-sensitive by default on Mac OS. Case-sensitive HFS+ was made available as an option in Mac OS 10.0, but was always glitchy (especially for boot volumes), because many applications depended on case insensitivity.
So CS HFS+ is not glitchy, and CS APFS will not magically fix applications with CI dependency.
For those who, like me, don't follow developments in this area closely: APFS is Apple's new filesystem, intended to be used across all of their devices (Macs, iOS, watchOS, etc). For Macs, it will be replacing HFS+, a direct descendant of the Hierarchical Filing System which has been used since 1985. (The original Macintosh Filing System, from 1984, was suitable only for floppy disks; among other things, it was a fla…
It replaced (as of iOS 10.3) HFS+ on the mobile devices as well, didn't it?