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remmers
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The Mac OS X 10.5 - aka Leopard - Item
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Jan 20 16:34 UTC 2008 |
This is the place to discuss the latest (as of January 2008) version of
Apple's OS X operating system.
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cross
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response 1 of 68:
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Jan 20 17:16 UTC 2008 |
[There is already an OS X item; why not use that?]
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remmers
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response 2 of 68:
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Jan 20 18:43 UTC 2008 |
[Yes, I posted that item; wanted a new one.]
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nullop
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response 3 of 68:
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Jan 20 20:41 UTC 2008 |
OS X is derived from unix and hence inherits a lot of the unix gayisms. You
can beautify the crap all you won't, it won't change the fact that at the
core, it is still shit.
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h0h0h0
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response 4 of 68:
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Jan 27 05:04 UTC 2008 |
nihilist
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ball
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response 5 of 68:
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Feb 18 18:31 UTC 2009 |
I'm still running MacOS X 10.4 'Tiger' (on a borrowed
iBook G3). Mostly I seem to use it as an X terminal, though
I do run Camino locally. Anything of interest in 'Leopard'?
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rcurl
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response 6 of 68:
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Feb 18 21:15 UTC 2009 |
I'm using OS 10.4.11 on a MacBook Pro. The 10.5 install disk came with it,
but I have not installed it: I fear a lot of apps I now use will not run on
it, and I also read about bugs in 10.5.
(I wish people didn't call OSs by names of animals: there are no similarities
between the name and the OS.)
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cross
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response 7 of 68:
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Feb 19 00:55 UTC 2009 |
Tiger comes with several advances; one of the big ones (for me, anyway) is
Timemachine. I really like automated backups.
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rcurl
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response 8 of 68:
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Feb 19 06:46 UTC 2009 |
That's a 10.5 app.
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veek
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response 9 of 68:
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Feb 19 11:01 UTC 2009 |
Re #6: heh, I was thinking the exact same thing :) and poor Cheetahs
they kind of suck and are going extinct even..
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cross
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response 10 of 68:
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Feb 19 14:41 UTC 2009 |
resp:8 Ooops, my bad. And this is exactly why you are right and one should
not name operating system releases after big cats.
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remmers
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response 11 of 68:
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Feb 20 14:17 UTC 2009 |
I've been running Leopard (10.5) on my MacBook Pro since shortly after
it was released over a year ago. I will say that it had some rough
edges initially, but after the first couple of updates things got much
better; it's up to 10.5.6 now, runs quite smoothly, and I'm very happy
with it.
New features that I like:
Time Machine - automated incremental backups
Spaces - multiple desktops
Also, the Spotlight search facility is significantly improved from
Tiger. Much faster, better functionality. I use it a lot.
I've not had any problems with 3rd party apps not running.
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keesan
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response 12 of 68:
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Feb 20 15:13 UTC 2009 |
I think Jim downgraded from 10.4 to 10.3 to make it run faster.
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cross
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response 13 of 68:
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Feb 20 19:19 UTC 2009 |
That's stupid and counterproductive.
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rcurl
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response 14 of 68:
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Feb 20 19:45 UTC 2009 |
Wouldn't that depend upon the machine?
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