OS X 10.11 'El Capitan' preview thread

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Will sudo even serve a purpose anymore?

 

It never really did. If you configure everything properly you should almost never need sudo. I've got a pretty custom development environment set up with tons of things installed through Homebrew, and I really never need root for anything anymore.

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When you enable the dark theme, why doesn't the right click menu obey the theme? It's a consistency issue that drives me bananas.

It only shows a dark menu for the parts that are turned dark when enabling it; the dock and menu bar. Everything outside of the dock/menu bar still keeps their non-dark theme look. To me that's pretty consistent with how the theme works in Yosemite/El Capitan.

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As someone who has used ZFS with Solaris, I can't help but shake my head and face palm every time I see people like you advocate ZFS as some sort of 'cure all' that Apple should adopt with no questions asked.

 

Well there's your problem. As someone who uses freeBSD with ZFS on a production server, I have no complaints. 

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Well there's your problem. As someone who uses freeBSD with ZFS on a production server, I have no complaints. 

 

ZFS is still a memory hogging mess that is great for a server with loads of memory to throw at the issue but horrible when it comes to desktop, workstation, laptops and don't even think about using it in an embedded scenario such as iOS. It s a server orientated file system that makes sense on the server but outside of that it is horrible. That doesn't even address the patent issues that Apple would face along with the licensing nature of the source code. If Apple really do need to have a better file system they would be better off developing something in house by learning lessons from HFS+, adopting HAMMERFS 2.0 then develop it further to fill in the missing parts or maybe buy out Symantec's storage division and use VxFS.

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ZFS is still a memory hogging mess that is great for a server with loads of memory to throw at the issue but horrible when it comes to desktop, workstation, laptops and don't even think about using it in an embedded scenario such as iOS. It s a server orientated file system that makes sense on the server but outside of that it is horrible. That doesn't even address the patent issues that Apple would face along with the licensing nature of the source code. If Apple really do need to have a better file system they would be better off developing something in house by learning lessons from HFS+, adopting HAMMERFS 2.0 then develop it further to fill in the missing parts or maybe buy out Symantec's storage division and use VxFS.

 

True. I don't care what they use as long as its better than HFS+. 

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Developer Preview 2 is out:

 

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Sorry for being maybe slightly off-topic, but wow what internet speed do you have? 2.43 GB - 14 minutes. For 2.43 GB I could go on holiday and still be only 89% when I get back :)

 

I don't have a Mac myself (sorry for the incorrect term) but I am following the new release with interest. Is El Capitan much snappier then Yosemite?

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I don't have a Mac myself (sorry for the incorrect term) but I am following the new release with interest. Is El Capitan much snappier then Yosemite?

 

I'm actually quite impressed, I'm running it on a 2007 iMac and while it's not blazingly fast it's enough for the bit's I need. I've run up Parallels with Windows 7 and it's not fast but enough to keep you going. Couldn't use it all day but I have it as a side monitor and occasional long running tasks.

 

The only thing that will stop me upgrading my laptop (main machine) is Photoshop CS4 not working without a bodge but I might learn to live with that. 

 

Loving the new Safari and the pinned tabs and password management.

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