http://blog.cosmix.org/2006/03/28/tevanian-is-leaving-apple/ Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:22:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blog.cosmix.org/2006/03/28/tevanian-is-leaving-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-18771 cosmix.org | If (Jobs in Trouble){ Apple In Trouble } ? Mon, 08 Jan 2007 21:06:30 +0000 http://blog.cosmix.org/2006/03/28/tevanian-is-leaving-apple/#comment-18771 [...] And it is a daunting, yet very probable possibility despite Apple’s recent self-exoneration. Or rather, it seems to me that the departure of Rubinstein, Tevanian and more recently (and most importantly) Apple’s CFO Anderson in early to mid 2006 and the speed with which Apple has concluded that Jobs is not involved, are suspicious and might hint of the seriousness of the situation. [...] [...] And it is a daunting, yet very probable possibility despite Apple’s recent self-exoneration. Or rather, it seems to me that the departure of Rubinstein, Tevanian and more recently (and most importantly) Apple’s CFO Anderson in early to mid 2006 and the speed with which Apple has concluded that Jobs is not involved, are suspicious and might hint of the seriousness of the situation. [...]

]]> http://blog.cosmix.org/2006/03/28/tevanian-is-leaving-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-2522 cosmix.org | Book Review: Mac OS X Internals Sun, 05 Nov 2006 14:58:21 +0000 http://blog.cosmix.org/2006/03/28/tevanian-is-leaving-apple/#comment-2522 [...] It has been rumoured for a long time that Leopard might bring considerable changes to the kernel as the current hybrid’s performance is significantly lower to that of other modern kernels, e.g. Linux. One possibility mentioned by John Siracusa on Ars Technica [1][2], was the replacement of the xnu by another kernel, something technically possible within the timeframe of Leopard’s release and increasingly probable after the departure of Avie Tevanian earlier this year. One seemingly good candidate that has attracted the attention of the technically-savvy Mac community is L4, the modern microkernel successor to Mach that largely diminishes the performance gap between it and monolithic kernels such as Linux. However, no sign of L4 (or another kernel for that matter) has appeared in the β versions of OS X that have been distributed by Apple to its ADC members. xnu seems to still be there, with no mention of a new kernel by Apple on the related web page. Nevertheless, Jobs talked of more features in Leopard than those presented in WWDC back in August and improvements on the kernel are more or less certain. The extend to which those improvements will render the relevant content of this book obsolete is, however, unknown. [...] [...] It has been rumoured for a long time that Leopard might bring considerable changes to the kernel as the current hybrid’s performance is significantly lower to that of other modern kernels, e.g. Linux. One possibility mentioned by John Siracusa on Ars Technica [1][2], was the replacement of the xnu by another kernel, something technically possible within the timeframe of Leopard’s release and increasingly probable after the departure of Avie Tevanian earlier this year. One seemingly good candidate that has attracted the attention of the technically-savvy Mac community is L4, the modern microkernel successor to Mach that largely diminishes the performance gap between it and monolithic kernels such as Linux. However, no sign of L4 (or another kernel for that matter) has appeared in the β versions of OS X that have been distributed by Apple to its ADC members. xnu seems to still be there, with no mention of a new kernel by Apple on the related web page. Nevertheless, Jobs talked of more features in Leopard than those presented in WWDC back in August and improvements on the kernel are more or less certain. The extend to which those improvements will render the relevant content of this book obsolete is, however, unknown. [...]

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