On the MacFUSE Project Page, you now have a new release of MacFUSE Core. Please be sure to upgrade as this fixes a nasty bug. Besides, in the filesystems-objc subdirectory, you’ll find source for the Objective-C library that we used to create the file systems shown in the MacFUSE Tech Demos video. You will also [...]
A new release is up at the MacFUSE project page. 0.2.0 adds several new features and fixes several bugs. New features include support for kqueue/kevent, advisory locking, full extended attributes support, support for extended security (ACLs), support for “direct I/O” (this allows the user-space file system to return less data than the file’s size, and [...]
There’s a new, much improved release of MacFUSE.
There’s an exciting new release of MacFUSE up on the project’s web site. Even better, you can now also download SpotlightFS (you’ll have to try it out to see how cool it is) and a graphical interface for sshfs. Enjoy!
The MacFUSE project page now contains a link to a brief video of some tech demos that I showed during my Macworld 2007 talk.
I gave a talk titled “Taming Mac OS X File Systems” at Macworld 2007 today. I also announced Google’s open source release of MacFUSE. Here are some relevant links: The MacFUSE Page on Google Code List of Wiki Articles on the Project Page Slides from the Talk Besides internal tech demos that I demonstrated during [...]
Let us try to make them a little cooler on Mac OS X.
I will be speaking at the following venues in the near future: Chaos Communication Congress, Berlin, Germany (December 29, 2006) Macworld Conference & Expo, San Francisco, USA (January 11, 2007)
I usually find the security-related smugness of Mac users rather jarring. What’s often even more jarring is the reasoning behind such smugness. That said, I have to say that the recent furor regarding the so called OSX.Macarena “virus” amounts to, well, bullshit. If anti-virus companies are pretending to “recognize the threat” and therefore attempting to [...]
Read about how to enable trusted computing on Mac OS X. The document’s coverage includes: A discussion of the TPM hardware present in certain Macintosh computers Release of an open source TPM driver for Mac OS X Release of a Mac OS X port of an open source trusted computing software stack An overview of [...]
The very first chapter I wrote for Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach was the “history” chapter. My goal was to create a comprehensive and detailed book. I deemed it important for the reader to understand the long and eventful journey toward Mac OS X. Therefore, I wrote the chapter as a technical history [...]
Mac OS X Internals: A Presentation is a Flash rendition of a presentation I recently gave.
EFI Programming on Mac OS X is a note on jumpstarting EFI development on Mac OS X. Prebuilt compiler toolchains for the PowerPC and x86 versions of Mac OS X are also available.
We have developed software (“BAMBIOS”) that allows such legacy booting on the Intel-based Macintoshes. For example, a regular (that is, non-EFI) version of Linux can be readily booted using this software. A mini presentation on the design of BAMBIOS is available.
This is a rather trivial update, but here are some points of interest: Knoppix seems very stable overall. We fixed the pixels-per-row vs bytes-per-row discrepancy in the kernel, so the X Window server has precise information now. We have tried VMware Workstation and VMware Player. Both work really well. This is a screenshot of VMware [...]
Yes, it works. In fact, it works really, really well (performance-wise). Please go here for the initial announcement and a customary screenshot of Windows XP running under the Linux version of VMware. The hardware in question is a 17-inch iMac.