Apple's Tiger

[Etienne Goyer]

Rui Tiago Cação Matos wrote:
> I wonder if things like these can be developed in the distributed
> environment that open source is. I mean, Apple has control over all the
> stack down from the hardware so I think it is much easier for them to
> integrate all this. What do you think?

I just skimmed the article, so there may be stuff I missed.  The most
interesting stuff, from my reading, is launchd.  Plenty of people
complain about the complexity of SysV init, and for good reason.  It
remain to be seen if launchd really simplify things (XML ... yuck!).

Their implementation of ACL look nice too.  From what I can see, they
decided to do their own thing instead of using POSIX ACL.  This is a
good thing in the sense that Unix file permission are not expressive
enough for every situation, and POSIX ACL are just perpetuating the
situation.  I do not think implementing a richer file ACL model in Linux
would be such a good idea, though.  I would rather have SELinux
implemented, although it carry it's own set of problem (complexity++).

The author of this article seem to be in awe with regard to extended
attributes.  I, too, think there is plenty of cool things we could do
with them.  In fact, I can't understand why they are basically ignored
by current desktop environment.

Eventually, I would have to get my hand on a Mac.  Or maybe take the
time to setup PearPC.  Eventually :)

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