iDVD 2.1 (let me freakin control the menu volume please)
iMovie 3 (more transitions, titles, effects)
iPhoto update (some minor editing features please)
window shading
a way to personalize the spinning multicolored pizza of death...so you can pick from: the tradional multicolored disk, maybe a spinning goats head or the head of that freaky little dog from zoolander, maybe a rotating extended middle finger, maybe a bill clinton or george w head spinning round and round, or maybe your country's flag patriotically rotating round and round for you to salute faithfully as your computer wonders what the hell you just asked it to do....
this will give me something fun to watch when my computer gets confused and befuddled with my requests.....
<strong>But implementing a different filesystem, while not necessarily EASY, isn't that hard either. It's all in the kernel, plus a few user space utilities already written by SGI.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Then you get to figure out what to do with all those applications that ask for a resource fork and/or type and creator codes.
Apple could probably move XFS over without too much trouble. I doubt that's the problem. The problem is not breaking a hell of a lot of applications.
[quote]<strong>BTW, Have any of you (Starfleet?) OSX cats tried recompiling the Mach kernel? Is recompiling a microkernel even worth doing?</strong><hr></blockquote>
There is no microkernel in OS X. Darwin is monolithic.
I'd be surprised if there were any benefits to recompiling the kernel if you weren't a Darwin developer rolling in new code. Darwin is not Linux. Similarly, I can't imagine what recompiling Mach in (say) MkLinux would buy you.
mac's girl: I hear you, but good support seems to be a matter of luck, not money.
I honestly can't say what magic combination of features would make me pay, but to put it simply, I would have to be impressed. If I wasn't impressed, but there were some good improvements, then I would pay up to $30. If I was thoroughly impressed, then I would pay $100.
Amorph: XFS supports extended attributes on files, so it would be easy to store the resource fork and other stuff in extended attributes. Dominic knows all about this stuff.
Dominic can make his own FS, much better than XFS, and without the GPL hassle. the HFS+ driver was updated in 10.1.4, and it gave us a *significant* speed boost in Sherlock. Just give him some time.
[quote]Darwin's got a monolithic kernel?! I thought it had a mach microkernel, and there was talk of performance trade-offs because of that?<hr></blockquote>
Initially, Mach was a very academic micro-kernel. Xnu however, OSX's kernel, has moved on to a more hybrid architecture, specifically to adress those IPC concerns inherent to micro-kernels.
There's one single thing I would pay for: a fast interface. Right now, everything is just so slow. The finder makes molasses look like quicksilver. Even more annoying, the typing lag when I am working in Word is unbearable.
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A while ago there was a job offering for an FS engineer with experience with journaling FSs.
Guess who took that job?
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24648.html" target="_blank">Dominic Giampaolo</a>
Mr BFS.
And progress has already shown, the HFS+ driver was updated in 10.1.4, and Sherlock searches have become *significantly* better since.
There is hope. I don't think XFS is the way to go.
rr.
Rightnow, you have to know the path to the machine.
iDVD 2.1 (let me freakin control the menu volume please)
iMovie 3 (more transitions, titles, effects)
iPhoto update (some minor editing features please)
window shading
a way to personalize the spinning multicolored pizza of death...so you can pick from: the tradional multicolored disk, maybe a spinning goats head or the head of that freaky little dog from zoolander, maybe a rotating extended middle finger, maybe a bill clinton or george w head spinning round and round, or maybe your country's flag patriotically rotating round and round for you to salute faithfully as your computer wonders what the hell you just asked it to do....
this will give me something fun to watch when my computer gets confused and befuddled with my requests.....
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apple promised to use some of the money to hire and train tech ppl that actually knew the difference between toilet paper and their ass.
and, with the leftover 50 cents from the budget, can i get some folder labels?
(see, we girls dont ask for all that much. ha!)
<strong>But implementing a different filesystem, while not necessarily EASY, isn't that hard either. It's all in the kernel, plus a few user space utilities already written by SGI.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Then you get to figure out what to do with all those applications that ask for a resource fork and/or type and creator codes.
Apple could probably move XFS over without too much trouble. I doubt that's the problem. The problem is not breaking a hell of a lot of applications.
[quote]<strong>BTW, Have any of you (Starfleet?) OSX cats tried recompiling the Mach kernel? Is recompiling a microkernel even worth doing?</strong><hr></blockquote>
There is no microkernel in OS X. Darwin is monolithic.
I'd be surprised if there were any benefits to recompiling the kernel if you weren't a Darwin developer rolling in new code. Darwin is not Linux. Similarly, I can't imagine what recompiling Mach in (say) MkLinux would buy you.
mac's girl: I hear you, but good support seems to be a matter of luck, not money.
[ 04-19-2002: Message edited by: Amorph ]</p>
<strong>BTW, Have any of you (Starfleet?) OSX cats tried recompiling the Mach kernel?</strong><hr></blockquote>This ain't Linux!
As Amorph said, there's no need to do that unless you're doing some mad programming in the kernel itself.
[quote]Darwin's got a monolithic kernel?! I thought it had a mach microkernel, and there was talk of performance trade-offs because of that?<hr></blockquote>
Initially, Mach was a very academic micro-kernel. Xnu however, OSX's kernel, has moved on to a more hybrid architecture, specifically to adress those IPC concerns inherent to micro-kernels.
Escher
I am very close to selling my BRAND new iBook 14inch w/384ram becuase OS X so far just sucks too damn much.
I hadn't already paid for what turned out to be just an advanced beta OS.
I would pay for 10.2 if....
They finally took the debug code out
I would pay for 10.2 if....
The Finder was finally as functional as the OS9 finder.
I would pay for 10.2 if....
it was a reasonable price. I'd say $20 to $50 tops.
I would pay for 10.2 if....
Someone gave me the money.