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    First off, make a copy. Just do it. (feddit.de)
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    [–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 44 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Weird? Permission?

    [–] metaStatic@kbin.social 38 points 2 years ago

    I have altered the Kernel, pray I don't alter it any further.

    [–] BautAufWasEuchAufbaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 years ago

    permission

    the power of free/libre software

    [–] psud@lemmy.world 44 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    Compiling your own kernel, configured for your hardware and use, was normal in the early days

    [–] krey@sh.itjust.works 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    Don't make gentoo users feel old πŸ˜„

    [–] WoodenBleachers@lemmy.basedcount.com 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    This happens on Mac as well btw. kexts are kernel extensions

    [–] alonely0@programming.dev 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    You're not really changing anything, you're adding functionalities. Also, it appears that apple has limited their capabilities and doesn't even recommend them anymore, so it wouldn't be crazy if they just deprecated them in favor of system extensions, which sadly they don't call sexts. On the surface, kexts appear to be basically userland ioctls, which you have on windows too.

    [–] Espi@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    The Apple XNU kernel is open source though, right here: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu

    [–] AffineConnection@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

    Maybe about 4-5 years ago, I read through the source to find obscure undocumented features of a couple system calls that allowed me to write a detailed system/process monitor utility that does things that nothing else seems to know about.

    [–] Tschuuuls@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

    10+ year Mac user here. It's a bit sad but better for system stability. A lot of weird hardware and software used to just inject kexts instead of doing stuff in userspace. This can cause weird issues like battery drain, crashes etc. which are hell to debug as a "average user". I don't really miss running "Entre Check" to figure out weird issues :D

    [–] WoodenBleachers@lemmy.basedcount.com 0 points 2 years ago

    As a mac-first guy I wasn’t aware of mimicked (really bothers me this word is spelled with a β€˜k’) functionality on windows. I simply mean that by adding a kext you are, by design, changing the code of the kernel. More of a particulars in speech thing.

    [–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

    You have to say sudo first.

    [–] mvirts@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

    Gimme that CAP_SYS_MODULE