Leopard Pics

[giza]

And I'm talking about OS/X Leopard, due out next Spring. Here are some pictures of their banners from the WWDC. (Originally seen at http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/07/apple-mac-pro-hands-on/ and http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/07/live-from-wwdc-2006-steve-jobs-keynote/)













One new feature of Leopard is "Time Machine", also known as "rsync with a graphical front end". It offers version control, the ability to "go back in time", and the ability to automatically store data offsite on a central server. It looks pretty cool, and I'm glad that there's finally going to be version control integrated with the OS.





"Spaces", also known as "virtual desktops" for those who have used X Windows is another UNIX tradition that I'm glad to see in OS/X.




Woo!

Comments

[tailen.livejournal.com]

Well, that's true. It just creates a dualboot system, which is still sort of useless if you have just a few tasks you need to do with Windows programs.
And we've had dualboot programs like that for ages already. As far as I can tell the only reason you actually need Bootcamp for dual booting is because Apple's BIOS deliberately locks people out from putting in a real bootloader.

Hopefully consumers will realize that virtualization is vastly superior to dualbooting.

[furahi.livejournal.com]

I've never used virtualization myself (despite having Zen installed), but I so want to =P
Are processors out that allow unmodified hosts to be ran using Zen?

[tailen.livejournal.com]

As far as I know Xen only runs modified binaries of other OSs. Any OS you want to run on it needs to be ported (enlightened), which gives a much higher performance than the virtualizations that can run unmodified versions of course, but for the price of more hassle.

If you want to run unmodified OSs on your machine you'll need something other than Xen. Either VMWare for PCs and Linux (which I detailed how to setup in a previous LJ post here) or Parallels like Rusty said if you're using a Mac.

[furahi.livejournal.com]

Oh, but Xen can run unmodified hosts now, but it needs some instructions on the CPU that.... I thought no processor offered, but apparently some Intel processors do