http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2008, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Sat, 17 May 2008 06:58:42 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/19698/Java_6_Released_for_64bit_Intel_Macs/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19698/Java_6_Released_for_64bit_Intel_Macs/ Back in 2007 when Apple released Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, a much-heard criticism was the lack of support for Java 6. Leopard shipped with an older version of Java, 1.5, even though 1.6 had been released by Sun almost a year prior. Sun had already released Java 1.6 for Linux and Windows, but did not do so for Mac OS X, since Apple insists on developing their own version of Java, according to Sun. Now, 6 months later, Mac Java programmers can rejoice. Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:04:31 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mac OS X 21 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 News someone http://www.osnews.com/story/19622/Apple_Seeds_New_10.5.3_Build_to_Developers/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19622/Apple_Seeds_New_10.5.3_Build_to_Developers/ Apple waited a full week before seeding the latest version of Mac OS X 10.5.3 (9d19) to developers on Friday. The latest version of Mac OS X Leopard adds 31 bug fixes to the growing list of issues addressed in the upcoming release. Features that are specifically targeted for focused testing include AirPort, Back To My Mac, Spaces, Time Machine and many others. Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:08:31 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mac OS X 0 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 News SK8T http://www.osnews.com/story/19565/Apple_Rapidly_Seeding_Mac_OS_X_10.5.3_Test_Builds/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19565/Apple_Rapidly_Seeding_Mac_OS_X_10.5.3_Test_Builds/ "The next security and maintenance release for Apple's Leopard operating system could arrive sooner than later if the company maintains its current cadence, which has seen two successive pre-release builds land in the hands of developers in just five days. On the heels of the first external test build labeled Mac OS X 10.5.3 build 9D10 and released privately late last week, the Mac maker on Tuesday followed up with build 9D11, which adds nearly 20 more fixes and code corrections, bringing the new total expected with software's release to nearly 100." Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:02:44 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mac OS X 4 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 News SK8T http://www.osnews.com/story/19544/Apple_Seeds_First_Mac_OS_X_10.5.3_Build/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19544/Apple_Seeds_First_Mac_OS_X_10.5.3_Build/ "Apple issued the first Mac OS X 10.5.3 seed (9d10) to developers yesterday. The latest update to Apple's Mac OS X Leopard addresses dozens of outstanding issues. Fixes range from Dashboard, Parental Controls, iCal Synchronization, memory leaks and stability issues. All in all, 75 distinct bug fixes are listed in the accompanying seed notes." Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:09:01 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mac OS X 8 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19533/Become_an_Xcoder_Leopard_Edition/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19533/Become_an_Xcoder_Leopard_Edition/ "Become an Xcoder is a free little eBook we wrote to help beginners with no or little programming experience to start their journey into the world of Mac OS X development with Objective-C and Cocoa. I'm glad to announce that the book has been updated for Leopard and Xcode 3, thanks to the work of Alex Clarke." Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:35:51 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mac OS X 6 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 News Philippe Mougin http://www.osnews.com/story/19417/Exclusive_Preview:_Delicious_Monsters_Delicious_Library_2.0/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19417/Exclusive_Preview:_Delicious_Monsters_Delicious_Library_2.0/ "Back in 2004, shortly before the release of Mac OS X Tiger, Delicious Library 1.0 arrived as a slick looking inventory cataloging application designed to manage listings of books, videos, albums and other media. This year, Delicious Library 2.0, currently in beta and scheduled for a March release, will deliver a major update by taking full advantage of features in the new Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Here's an exclusive preview." Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:19:27 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mac OS X 9 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19369/Review:_Mac_OS_X_10.5.2/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19369/Review:_Mac_OS_X_10.5.2/ "Leopard started out with a generous share of first-version glitches, but almost all of them have now been resolved by the second of two automated updates, which brings Leopard up to version 10.5.2. Finally, Leopard is extravagantly overdressed for the jobs that it's designed to do, and its pervasive eye-candy starts out looking dazzling but soon becomes distracting. Fortunately, from the beginning, the OS started out with options that let you put it on a low-eye-sugar diet, and the latest update has even more." Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:30:06 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mac OS X 30 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 News CIozzio http://www.osnews.com/story/19349/Leopards_Second_Update_Prompts_a_Second_Look/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19349/Leopards_Second_Update_Prompts_a_Second_Look/ "Apple recently released its second update to OS X 'Leopard', and the latest version of its shiny operating system is now numbered 10.5.2. When I reviewed Leopard two days after its initial release I called it the best operating system ever made for the vast majority of users. I think that's even more true now that 10.5.2 fixes some of the first-release glitches that annoyed me in 10.5 and in Apple's first, quick, bug-fix update 10.5.1." Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:36:43 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mac OS X 61 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 News CIozzio http://www.osnews.com/story/19322/Mac_OS_X_10.5.2_Has_Finally_Landed/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19322/Mac_OS_X_10.5.2_Has_Finally_Landed/ Today, Apple has released the much anticipated Mac OS X 10.5.2. The hefty combo update weighs in at almost 350MB, but it can also be downloaded via Software Update. The updates includes general operating system improvements that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac, as well as imrpoved Back to My Mac support, new view for Dock based folders, and much more. Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:09:58 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Adam S) Mac OS X 37 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 News SK8T http://www.osnews.com/story/19222/Leopard_Server:_the_Peoples_Unix/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19222/Leopard_Server:_the_Peoples_Unix/ "Apple has brought its unique brand of richness and simplicity to servers. OS X Leopard Server is the fifth generation of the software half of Apple's server platform. This time around, Apple took what is a unique and bold approach for a Unix server. Leopard Server continues the OS X Server tradition of delivering platform-independent file/print, e-mail, Web, and network edge services (such as stateful firewall, VPN, proxy, virus, and spam filtering). But it is as easy to set up and run as a desktop. Truly; the typical Mac user could get a Leopard Server going, because the default administrative interface is a match for a Mac's System Preferences." Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:09:57 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mac OS X 47 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19217/Call_to_Apple:_Please_Open_Mac_OS_X_(or_Others_Will)/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19217/Call_to_Apple:_Please_Open_Mac_OS_X_(or_Others_Will)/ This article is about new aspects of the never-ending story of how Apple is protecting MacOS X for running on different hardware than Apple's. The keyword is virtualization, which allows running unmodified version of Mac OS X as virtualized instance. Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:14:10 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Mac OS X 86 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 Feature Anton Klotz http://www.osnews.com/story/19215/Development_of_10.5.2_Winding_Down_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19215/Development_of_10.5.2_Winding_Down_/ The frequency at which Apple is seeding new pre-release builds of its second update to the Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard operating system is increasing rapidly, suggesting an official release may be imminent. Fresh on the heels of build 9C20, which was released as a private distribution earlier this week, the Cupertino-based Mac maker on Thursday issued its latest revision of the software update labeled Mac OS X 10.5.2 build 9C23. Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:09:33 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mac OS X 6 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 News orlando james http://www.osnews.com/story/19189/Mac_OS_X_and_the_Missing_Probes/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19189/Mac_OS_X_and_the_Missing_Probes/ One of the three authors of Sun's DTrace, Adam Leventhal, has discovered something very interesting using DTrace on Mac OS X. "As has been thoroughly recorded, Apple has included DTrace in Mac OS X. I've been using it as often as I have the opportunity, and it's a joy to be able to use the fruits of our labor on another operating system. But I hit a rather surprising case recently which led me to discover a serious problem with Apple's implementation." So, what is this problem? "Wow. So Apple is explicitly preventing DTrace from examining or recording data for processes which don't permit tracing. This is antithetical to the notion of systemic tracing, antithetical to the goals of DTrace, and antithetical to the spirit of open source. I'm sure this was inserted under pressure from ISVs, but that makes the pill no easier to swallow. To say that Apple has crippled DTrace on Mac OS X would be a bit alarmist, but they've certainly undermined its efficacy and, in doing do, unintentionally damaged some of its most basic functionality. To users of Mac OS X and of DTrace: Apple has done a service by porting DTrace, but let's convince them to go one step further and port it properly." Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mac OS X 49 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 News Francis Kuntz http://www.osnews.com/story/19174/Review:_EyeTV_3/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19174/Review:_EyeTV_3/ "Elgato's EyeTV software has been the best application on the Mac platform for watching TV by a mile. Their 2.x series cemented their position for me and drew me in as a big fan of their software. Now Elgato has released EyeTV 3, with major new features and a lot of refinements. In this review we'll cover the new features and then figure out if it's the right program for you." Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:18:06 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mac OS X 7 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 News luna6 http://www.osnews.com/story/19146/ZFS_for_Mac_OS_X:_Binaries_Source_Available/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19146/ZFS_for_Mac_OS_X:_Binaries_Source_Available/ Noel Dellofano, who is part of the ZFS dev team at Apple, has a post on Mac OS Forge announcing a late Christmas gift: she is making available binaries and source code (plus instructions) of the ZFS filesystem for Mac OS X. "ZFS is a new kind of filesystem that provides simple administration, transactional semantics, end-to-end data integrity, and immense scalability. ZFS is not an incremental improvement to existing technology; it is a fundamentally new approach to data management. We've blown away 20 years of obsolete assumptions, eliminated complexity at the source, and created a storage system that's actually a pleasure to use." Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:39:23 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mac OS X 33 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 News nicoladagostino