Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 5th Oct 2007 15:16 UTC, submitted by adkilla
Mac OS X "Apple has begun preparatory measures for significant announcements to take place during the last full week of October, AppleInsider has been told. While sources have requested that we not go into detail regarding the specific measures being put into place, they say the announcements are likely to arrive any time between the 22nd and 27th of the month. Obviously, such a timeframe would coincide with Apple's self-imposed release schedule for Mac OS X Leopard, which the company - after having delayed the software once - has promised for 'October'." Think Secret thinks the same.
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2 early 2 release ...
by tacit_one on Fri 5th Oct 2007 17:05 UTC
tacit_one
Member since:
2005-12-09

Personally, I use the latest Beta - and if it goes to the Release the way it is now - this is gonna be a disaster.
Accidental crashes, a lot of software doesn't work.
Would be really disappointed with Apple... ;)

RE: 2 early 2 release ...
by TownDrunk on Fri 5th Oct 2007 17:31 in reply to "2 early 2 release ..."
TownDrunk Member since:
2005-11-28

How about some specifics about what software doesn't work? I have not heard of anyone else having these issues.

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RE[2]: 2 early 2 release ...
by tacit_one on Fri 5th Oct 2007 17:41 in reply to "RE: 2 early 2 release ..."
tacit_one Member since:
2005-12-09

A lot of problems with Carbon framework. Most of the problems i have are with applications that are based on Trolltech Qt (framework that utilises Carbon) - but Trolltech QA claims that these are the problems with Carbon itself.
You can browse for Trolltech Qt library Bugtracker to see how many issues they have with incompatibility of Carbon between Tiger/Leopard.
Since a lot of applications are written with Carbon - this is probably a problem...

Edited 2007-10-05 17:43

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RE: 2 early 2 release ...
by Harald on Fri 5th Oct 2007 19:07 in reply to "2 early 2 release ..."
Harald Member since:
2006-03-10

Accidental crashes

I love that ;)

Have you found any 'planned' crashes yet ;) ))

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RE[2]: 2 early 2 release ...
by haldir on Fri 5th Oct 2007 19:54 in reply to "RE: 2 early 2 release ..."
haldir Member since:
2007-09-24

Just back when MS was intentionally breaking 3rd party software. Of course they don't do that any more... right?

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RE[2]: 2 early 2 release ...
by tacit_one on Fri 5th Oct 2007 19:56 in reply to "RE: 2 early 2 release ..."
tacit_one Member since:
2005-12-09

Not that funny, actually.
When application crashes in random places at the random moments, during the heavy load system calls...
If you have some experience with Mac development, do the following: create a simple BSD-like application with heavy PIPE I/O - you will be really surprised with the whole system behavior of Leopard and will dream about 'planned' crashes ;)

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