Building the XNU kernel on macOS Sierra
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Re: Building the XNU kernel on macOS Sierra
#2Excellent! PureDarwin [1] is still plodding along slowly.
Re: Building the XNU kernel on macOS Sierra
#3I'm sorry but I stopped reading because you've chosen to break lines mid-word (reading on mobile). Justified text would be a lot easier to read.
edit: It looks like Safari's reader mode fixes things.
Re: Building the XNU kernel on macOS Sierra
#4I'm sorry but I stopped reading because you've chosen to break lines mid-word (reading on mobile). Justified text would be a lot easier to read. edit: It looks like Safari's reader mode fixes things.
I thought this was a petty HN UI comment but no. Readying the post is painful nearly ever other line ends in a split word on mobile.
Re: Building the XNU kernel on macOS Sierra
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Re: Building the XNU kernel on macOS Sierra
#6XNU open source bits from Apple are always a tiny subset of the actual kernel code. Plus, long gone are the people who Apple hired from the FreeBSD world who believed in it enough to push internally for it. So who knows at this point what is filtered out at publish time.
Don't get me wrong, it's great to read how file drivers really work, and read how XNU manages virtual memory, but other than that, it's a pretty crappy drop.
Re: Building the XNU kernel on macOS Sierra
#7XNU open source bits from Apple are always a tiny subset of the actual kernel code. Plus, long gone are the people who Apple hired from the FreeBSD world who believed in it enough to push internally for it. So who knows at this point what is filtered out at publish time. Don't get me wrong, it's great to read how file drivers really work, and read how XNU manages virtual memory, but other than that, it's a pretty cra…
Yea personally I'm mostly fascinated with the semi microkernel architecture. I don't really mind that the rest is closed. And yea, I've suspected they lost some good people after seeing all the new security issues in the kernel the past years.
If only wayland was more mature, and the Linux world would have put down X11 once and for all, I would be back on Linux a long time ago :)
Re: Building the XNU kernel on macOS Sierra
#8Excellent! PureDarwin [1] is still plodding along slowly. 1: http://www.puredarwin.org/
Yea, I got surprised they didn't have more documentation, at least updated.
Re: Building the XNU kernel on macOS Sierra
#9I'm sorry but I stopped reading because you've chosen to break lines mid-word (reading on mobile). Justified text would be a lot easier to read. edit: It looks like Safari's reader mode fixes things.
Sorry about that, the theme will improve. CSS isn't my great side.
Re: Building the XNU kernel on macOS Sierra
#10I'm sorry but I stopped reading because you've chosen to break lines mid-word (reading on mobile). Justified text would be a lot easier to read. edit: It looks like Safari's reader mode fixes things.
I thought this was a petty HN UI comment but no. Readying the post is painful nearly ever other line ends in a split word on mobile.
Sorry about that, the theme will improve. CSS isn't my great side.