OS X Tiger - April
Thread Title:
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger to arrive in April
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger to arrive in April
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http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0503tiger.html
http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0503tiger.html
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I'm aware that this is a big deal to a lot of people, but im a little clueless where Mac is concerned. If i understand it correctly, the OS X is kind of open source right? Complete with the X Windows server i use on my Gentoo box.
Would anyone care to tell me, in simple terms, what the deal is?
I'm shopping for a 2nd PC at the moment, i desperately need a somethign with XP on as i have to do some windows stuff shortly but man... from all the excitement out there over OS X im beginning to wonder if i should go Mac...
I'm aware that this is a big deal to a lot of people, but im a little clueless where Mac is concerned. If i understand it correctly, the OS X is kind of open source right? Complete with the X Windows server i use on my Gentoo box.
Would anyone care to tell me, in simple terms, what the deal is?
I'm shopping for a 2nd PC at the moment, i desperately need a somethign with XP on as i have to do some windows stuff shortly but man... from all the excitement out there over OS X im beginning to wonder if i should go Mac...
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OS X runs on kernal based on
OS X runs on kernal based on mach and FreeBSD variant of Unix. Over that is placed a GUI which is all most people ever see. What is cool for developers is that every Mac comes with Apache installed so you can run it as a local server for testing scripts, etc.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/technology.html
You can also X-Window unix aps under the X11 system:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/x11/
Frankly I'm not sure how that works but an old Linux hand should be able to figure it out.
Personally...
...I never get excited about ANY major OS upgrade, until it's been through the first couple 'point-whatever' versions.
But I must say, OSX Panther upgrades have been a breeze to deal with so far. Not sure about the Panther-Tiger switch though, as the Jaguar-Panther leap seemed to require changes major enough that software had to get major overhauls to be 10.3 (Panther) compatible...
Upgrades
Yeah, I'm holding off on buying an iMac until they start shipping them with Tiger OSX installed. I hate upgrading - I want it already done. Panther has been rock solid stable for me tho.
Thanks
Thanks guys, i feel a little better informed now :)
Im thining i'll have to go PC for the 2nd computer with XP but i would really like to get a mac mini aswell for media...
Tiger
And speaking of Tiger, this update is a big one. Major UI additions and performance will be better on even older hardware. I'm most excited about Spotlight (desktop search), Dashboard, and Smart Folders. Smart Folders works in the desktop and in applications (like Mail) where you can have folders that are essentially saved Spotlight seaches. So you can for example have a folder that shows a particular group files (or emails) regardless of where they live on the system... and it updates it self automatically. Good stuff.
Great. In another month I'll
Great. In another month I'll have to upgrade to Tiger. And I'm still trying to 'get' Jaguar. Guess this is what I get for waiting so long to upgrade.