by Cao | Oct 7, 2016 | FreeBSD vs Linux, macOS, OSX, X vs Y
Michael Larabel of Phoronix performed several benchmark tests between the latest FreeBSD (note that it is not the official 11.0-RELEASE), Ubuntu, and macOS Sierra operating systems on the MacBook Air. The tests performed range from SQLite, OpenMP, to the LLVM Clang...
by Cao | Jul 8, 2016 | Apple, OSX, ZFS
ZFS developer Adam H. Leventhal writes an in-depth comparison between ZFS–a prominent filesystem in BSD systems, and APFS–a new filesystem developed for Apple’s macOS and replacing its aging HFS+. The author discusses its snapshot and backup,...
by Cao | Apr 1, 2016 | FreeBSD, OSX, Programming, Tutorial
User yohanesu75 shows us how to cross compile Rust from Mac OS X to the FreeBSD operating system. Rust is a programming language designed for “safety, speed, and concurrency”. See the link below for the full instructions. About this repository This...
by Cao | Dec 9, 2015 | FreeBSD, OSX
User mirrorshades recounts their story of transitioning from a long time OS X user to FreeBSD. I’ve been using Mac OS X since the Public Beta, though not as a daily driver for a few years after it was initially released. Pismo, PowerMac, PowerBook (12″ albook!),...
by Cao | Jun 17, 2015 | OSX, Software
For those who would like to use bhyve for OS X, a BSD-licensed virtualizer has been ported. Check out xhyve below. xhyve is a lightweight virtualization solution for OS X that is capable of running Linux. It is a port of FreeBSD’s bhyve… super lightweight, only 230 KB...
by Cao | Jan 9, 2015 | FreeBSD, OSX
User landonf wrote this patchset to allow baseline Mac OS X support. Howdy, The patches here add support for building on Mac OS X; with these changes, all included tests (executed via `make check’) pass on both Mac OS X and FreeBSD. I don’t anticipate an...
