Take these rumors of what OS X.5 Leopard will include with a 100 Lb. block of salt...
To: 1234; 6SJ7; Action-America; af_vet_rr; afnamvet; Alexander Rubin; anonymous_user; ...
Some really juicy rumors of what will be in OS X Leopard when it is release... NEXT SUMMER??? PING!
Take these rumors with a large grain of salt...
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2 posted on
05/31/2006 12:36:24 AM PDT by
Swordmaker
(Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!")
To: Swordmaker
Simultaneous (e.g. not dual-boot) operating system virtualization technology derived from quiet efforts in this area at Apple over the past five years will allow Leopard owners to run OS X, Windows, Linux, Solaris and other operating systems simultaneously with near-native performance and no need for third party softwareAWESOME!! I am looking forward to this.
To: Swordmaker
Leopard will take this several steps further, introducing types of GPU-acceleration that had to be cut out of 10.4 Tiger due to a lack of sufficient debugging time This one I know is real. You can enable Quartz 2D Extreme in 10.4. In that case, your whole desktop is pretty much an OpenGL scene, with very little processor power or main memory bandwidth used to render it. Video cards that can handle it have been on the market for a while.
To: Swordmaker
What I'm looking forward to...
Offloading more graphic work to the GPU, slimmer kernel, and kickass SMP support (8 processor cores? Whoa....)
What I'm not looking forward to...
Yet another cold-ass looking industrial metal theme. What the hell is wrong with using Aqua, by far the most attractive desktop environment ever made?
BTW, I keep hearing rumors that Apple will strip most of the Mach code out of Darwin, relying mostly on BSD stuff (Yeah, I know they say it's based on FreeBSD 5 right now, but that's a fib....the userland stuff is BSD...the kernel is Mach).
9 posted on
05/31/2006 8:04:23 AM PDT by
DesScorp
To: Swordmaker
Seemed like a lot of the stuff they were talking about would be about 10 steps forward instead of the obvious 1 step.
Still I would like for QT to play all video file formats.
11 posted on
05/31/2006 9:18:51 AM PDT by
Mr. Blonde
(You know, Happy Time Harry, just being around you kinda makes me want to die.)
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