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http://download.virtualbox.org/virtu...-42893-OSX.dmg
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I should think Xbench is a better tool in this case. Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider However, Primate also acknowledges that Geekbench only tests CPU- and memory speed-intensive features such as floating point math, not video perf…
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Yeah, VirtualBox is pretty awesome. I introduced it at my company and the majority of our developers that use winblows in a VM are now using VirtualBox. Unlike the VMWare/Parallels solutions, VirtualBox is free and always will be, and it seems fas…
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I'm figuring that Apple found in testing that most Time Machine users wanted a full system backup. That would take a long time, even on 802.11n (which a large number of Leopard buyers can't even use. Of course, I'd like to find a way to do an in…
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I'm not totally sure about this, but I think Solaris 10 is not GPL. I think it's Sun's own open liscence. Quote: Originally Posted by blake.irvin If they want deep enterprise penetration (which they haven't said yet), it would make some sense…
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If they want deep enterprise penetration (which they haven't said yet), it would make some sense to at least consider putting a beefier server OS under OS X. Maybe I'm just engaging in some wishful thinking Quote: Originally Posted by Slewis …
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I'm just noting why they might be motivated to switch from BSD to Solaris guts. Quote: Originally Posted by Slewis So simply because it's not a 'real server' OS, Apple MUST be swapping out the XNU. That makes no sense. Sebastian
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ZFS tools (zpool and zfs) let you create a test pool from flat files. Like: mkfile 128m file1 file2 file3 zpool create testpool raidz /[path]/file1 /[path]/file2 /[path]/file3 zfs create testpool/testfs I've done this test and then us…
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Darwin is not a 'real server' OS. It's not tuned like Solaris is for massively parallel workloads. I'm using the latest Open Solaris right now, and it's much more powerful in many respects than OS X/Darwin. Solaris and Open Solaris both have …
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ZFS can be the boot volume. Some of the people I interact with in the Open Solaris community are already booting from ZFS on PCs by messing with the GRUB bootloader. My understanding is that the Mac's Extensible Firmware is much more flexible than…