Apple put up a knowledge base page about the release of MacOSX 10.2.1, but they later retracted it. It seems that a patch release is pretty close. Read here of what is most likely to come with 10.2.1.
MacOSX 10.2.1 Release Imminent
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It looks like a pretty big bug fix – with much of it oriented toward digital hub problems.
I really don’t mean to post off topic, but I am still stunned that
Apple is now bundling $699 Adobe InDesign with all Power Macs. I know it’s not OS news, but, to me, it is big Mac platform news. With Quark dragging its feet on OS X, this is a radical move by Apple and shows how much they are invested in the whole DTP area. If I get moderated down, I’ll understand 🙂
Where did you get that from?
Anyway, your first sentence isn’t off topic 🙂 (/me searches for something to say so it won’t be off topic….)
Ahhh, finally, less kernal panics.
/me wanting to get moderated down.
> Where did you get that from?
http://www.apple.com/promo/designfreely/
I haven’t had a kernal panic under OS X since, at the latest, April of 2001. 😀
I would just like an x86 ISO of the Darwin based on OS X.2.
http://www.opendarwin.org/documentation/Booting_on_x86.php
and
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1684
Mac OS X 10.2.1 update is available on the gnutella network from at least one month
I don’t know, never saw a kernel panic in OS X except in OS X 10.0 and 10.1, but read the last under “Other Enhancements” – “Addresses various potential kernel panic situations.” 🙂
Well, at least it says it addresses “potential” kernel panics and not “common” ones. hehe
Apple twice posted a Knowledge Base Document about the update today and then pulled it twice…there must be a problem with it.
Are they going to charge 129$ for this bugfix/update ?
“Mac OS X 10.2.1 update is available on the gnutella network from at least one month”
That wouldn’t be the developer’s release, would it? That has been available since before the release of Jagwire.
1. The SCSI system on Powerbooks (not iBooks)is frequently not recognized, ergo no burning with external SCSI burners or recognition of scanners etc.
2. Internal modem on Powerbooks no longer works after Jagwire.
One way of Apple ensuring that it shifts more hardware by forcing upgrades.
Me? I’ll downgrade back to OS9. Goodbye OS X, it was nice knowing you.
Take this like an service pack for Mac OS X. 10.2 is a major release, but not major enough to make it 11.0. Note Microsoft also does the same: XP isn’t a free upgrade.
But Apple should have at least given an upgrade price for existing Mac OS X users when the Jaguar update came…
BUT they drive a hard bargain … many mac users often find them selves paying a big upgrade/bugfix fee.
Don’t get me wrong, apple has to get the green from somewhere, and the os is still young, so it is good to see that they actually DO some serious devving on the os. I guess mac users just have to bear with them for the time being.
I personally see a really great os, and it will flourish IF and ONLY IF apple sticks to what it does best, it should stick to its niche market.
my 2 cents
Take Care
Kevin
win xp = nt 5.1
they made it boot faster, allowed skinning, and changed the UI of poorly designed apps.
10.1 – 10.2 they render the gui now offloading processes to the graphics card, added new software.
Which update seems worth the upgrade?
Just stop the bitching about this,
XP is more than just eye candy. XP Pro comes with basic Terminal Server functionality, ClearType, multiple logins and other improvements.
they both didn’t seem to do much but were updates which cost money.
and on a personal note: XP’s licensing agreement and the lack of real updates (in my opinion) keep me from in good conscience from purchasing products from MS in the future.
Evan, i couldn’t agree more.
BUT my company has a license agreement with msft, so i dont have to pay anything since this is a company laptop
OT: for the updates being worth it or not …
A couple of days ago some employees installed IE6 SP1 (which in my oppinion is a MAJOR update).
Now they can no longer surf, why ? Because it can no longer authenticate itself with our NetAppliance NetCache proxy (although it is plain html auth). Nothing fancy there. We called msft, and they told us they only supported ms proxy server WHICH IS END OF LIFE, the standard now is ms ISA server. go figure …
We spend well over 1 million Euros every year to comply with all licensing issues, we also have a maintenance contract, which also costs quite some green. But still they wouldn’t answer our call, instead they just told us to get a support contract, or just try to solve it ourselves, which basicly means “fuck you”.
sry for the offtopic noise here, but it was just about updates
If you moderate me down for this eug, i would understand.
Take Care
Kevin
The only kernel panic I’ve had is when I ate a peanut with worms in it
I’m pleased they are addressing printing issues in this upgrade. I was beginning to think they had lost the plot on printing.
I`ve had three kernel panics since i installed osx one year ago. they all occured when Office was running…..
i’ve only had 2 ever, both under 10.0.x versions. one was because i was pulling out and putting in PCI scsi cards as the thing was running (i’m a glutton for punishment) and one when i tried to hack my screensaver to be my desktop background. i succeeded, but because there was a lag on the command and i wasn’t sure if i typed it right i ended up firing off 4 screensavers simultaneosly on my desktop. my processors pegged, my window manager slowed to a crawl, and after 15 minutes of trying to force quit everything (i had about 20 apps running) the thing finally took a crap. a quick reboot and all was back to normal. i love OS X. my powerbook and my dual-G4 haven’t crashed in months. our OS X server at work slows down a bit every 6 months so we reboot, but it’s never crashed.
stew, yes, there are a LOT of new features in XP. But too little to consider it NT 6.0. The same way for Mac OS X 10.2. Mac OS X 10.2 is as different from Mac OS X 10.1 as Windows XP is as different from Windows 2000.
But anyway, I think Microsoft charged for XP is because with XP, Microsoft merged two product lines into two different versions of the same OS. Mac OS X 10.2, minus all the new apps, is what Mac OS X should have been like (most, if not all, of the UI changes, for example, had been suggested when OS X Public Beta was out). But that’s still no excuse to charge for Windows XP 🙂
Most Windows 2000 users I know won’t upgrade to Windows XP because it isn’t worth the money.
Besides, Kevin, that is totally off topic 🙂
> Besides, Kevin, that is totally off topic 🙂
yup, i warned before i ranted, at least that is something
it’s just that i wanted to point out that with what apple has to offer with it’s upgrades you at least know what to expect, the fact that they produce the hardware AS WELL as the os probably helps here
sry for the ranting earlier, i was just really pissed
Take Care
Kevin
Most Windows 2000 users I know won’t upgrade to Windows XP because it isn’t worth the money.
I won’t upgrade to Windows XP because I don’t consider it an upgrade.
Nice to see that they are continuing to quash bugs. I’ve been using X since the public beta. The ONLY kernal panic I’ve had was when booting up X for the first time. Not the way to start using a new OS. Since then it’s been smooth sailing on my G3/300 DT.
OS X 10.2.1 seems a bit SLOWER on my machine. I haven’t found that app that allowed you to not start up things like apache on boot. That may be the reason that 10.1 seemed faster since I didn’t have so many services running.
Don’t know about your first point, but the internal modem on my PowerBook G3 works just great with Jaguar.
> 2. Internal modem on Powerbooks no longer works after Jagwire.
>Me? I’ll downgrade back to OS9. Goodbye OS X, it was nice knowing you.
I can’t speak for anyone else, but I’ll NEVER go back to MacOS 9.
-Bob