"Mac OS X 10.5.2 Update, the next in a year-long series of planned updates to Apple's new Leopard operating system, promises to be one of the most hefty maintenance releases put out by the company for its operating system software in recent years. According to people familiar with the matter, Tuesday evening gave way to the first test builds of the software update for developers, including a 354MB bare-bones delta build and a 362MB combo updater- both of which were labeled OS X 10.5.2 build 9C7."
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Member since:2005-07-03
The size of the patch has nothing to do with the amount of bugs fixed or left unfixed.
Also the first .1 update to any Mac OS X version, has always been between the first twenty days after the release; the existance of a .1 14 days after release date, doesn't have anything to do with rushing or releasing "sooner".
Leopard has issues, lots. But it's a great OS overall. Jumping from a "stable" tiger to an unstable Leopard is what might be annoying people. But the OS is great. It just fails in small (and not so small) things that used to work relatively well under tiger/panther.
I, for one, welcome the new finder with love, the fact that samba shares are now "almost properly" handled is a ++ for those of us who happen to have other Samba/Windows machines hanging around.
Member since:2005-07-06
No, I was looking at the change list (there was another one presented by someone else that I saw that listed out the applications that were affected and it was substantial, but I don't know where I saw it now).
And I agree with you about Leopard, I am typing this message on 10.5.1, safari 3.0.4. It's a great OS *and* I use it for work, tunneling into our network which is laden with Linux and Windows server machines.
Member since:2005-07-06
I find it funny when people claimed that 10.5 was rushed given that most people who have Macs here came when Mac OS X 10 was sitting at 10.4.5. I remember when 10.3 first came out, it was buggy, but it wasn't as 'connected' as it is today, so the whine factor was a lot quieter.
Apple has always had the 'release early, release often' - oh, and the bugs in Mac such as the one shown with the networking has been a known Finder bug for quite some time - the difference is now that with more users, there is greater scrutiny. The difference is, as far as I see, Apple is stepping up to the challenge when it comes to address user issues.
As for people who have 'problems', they tend to be like Windows users - I don't know what the heck they do with their computer, it it amazes me how they can muck something up so much it even confuses me!
Member since:2005-07-06
I've been using OS X since the first Beta release of 10.0. Before that I was on 8.x-9.x.
I also have the advantage of having worked at a large computer corporation on several products and there were more than several instances when said company released software knowing there were some serious issues (at go-live meetings they would categorize bugs by the likelihood of a user encountering them), already working on the patches, all because they wanted to get it out on a specific "date." It's a stupid thing to do in my opinion, but that is why I am a programmer, not an administrator or marketing expert.
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2005-07-06
...that they rushed this puppy out the door a bit sooner than they would have liked. Ah well. I haven't had any issues w/Leopard yet... thankfully.