On Jun 6, 2015, at 2:53, René J.V. Bertin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Friday June 05 2015 17:45:22 Landon Fuller wrote: > >> but if that does work in Yosemite, it seems very likely to break in >> Yosemite+1 of OS X when they start applying additional iOS-style >> restrictions based on code signing entitlements + MAC. > > Which would probably render kextd patching useless too? Yep! Now we’re back to square one, with users having to disable kext signing *AND* ‘rootless’. > The code that enforces all these things wouldn't be available via > opensource.apple.com, would it? Some of the underlying implementation is — such as the TrustedBSD-derived MAC framework. The stuff built on top of that is hit-and-miss; for example (and IIRC), the Sandbox.kext that sits on top of MAC is closed source. Obviously the sources for anything newly added for 10.11 will probably not appear for a while. > >> >> Personally, I’m just staying with Mavericks. > > If it had been feasible I'd have stayed with 10.6 but sadly Apple know how to > make you update, and now that OS updates are free 3rd party providers are > adopting the attitude that there's nothing keeping you from doing so (this > was just discussed on a Qt ML). > [OT] > For me personally that means I may be leaving the Apple ecosystem sooner than > I'd have thought, also because I wouldn't even know what to buy to replace my > current MBP if I had to. Not that the situation appears to be any different > with other manufacturers: apparently it's gone out of vogue to want a compact > laptop with solid build quality, a powerful CPU (i7 style), upgradable RAM > and 2.5" form-factor HDD/SDD, a good selection of ports including wired > ethernet and at least the possibility not to add a $$$ fancy display because > one already has a fine external display. All for the price of an MBP 13" ... > minus the Apple Tax if possible. > For a while I thought I'd found a suitable OS X replacement in Linux + KDE4, > but "KDE5" is becoming unavoidable while still far from production-ready IMO, > and the same Ivvy Johnny style short-sighed design decisions have been made > there that will almost unavoidably lead to yet another overhaul when they go > out of fashion in 9 months or so. > All this really makes me feel ripe for retirement while being far from ready > for it :-/ > (IT is great - pass the prozac and I'll have a dab of Botax too :)) > [/OT] Yep. -landonf _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
