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Almost exactly one year after the idea of porting Portage to MacOS X came up - and the joint Metapkg initiative between Fink, Darwinports and Gentoo took off - a 20-head-strong developer team around Pieter van den Abeele (strategic lead) and Daniel Ostrow (operational) is now ready to release an extraordinary beast into the wild: Gentoo MacOS.

Michael Chute on OS X, Research "In the end, ease of use and data security was the rule," Michael Chute told MacNewsWorld. "I spoke with people using Linux clusters, and while they were effective, they entailed more significant IT resources. No need for a bunch of scientists mucking around when they do not have the time to learn system administration."

John Gruber has written an in-depth look at Apple's filesystem work and Tiger's new Spotlight search technology by John Gruber. Since the introduction of OS X, Apple's HFS+ filesystem has taken a lot of abuse "from the peanut gallery," but it has seen steady improvements, and Dominic Giampaolo (of BeFS fame) has extended it further to support Spotlight.

Apple recently provided developers with a new pre-release beta of Xcode 1.5, an upgrade to Mac OS X's suite of development tools. Release notes for the beta say that Version 1.5 will feature dead-code stripping, code completion for Java, support for the Subversion source-code control system, AppleScriptable CodeWarrior importing, and AppleScript support in the native build system. Xcode 1.5 will also boast speed improvements, Ant templates, faster editor performance, remote debugging, and an enhanced debugger with a globals browser and memory browser.

Preproduction models of Apple’s recently announced 2.5GHz liquid cooled Power Mac G5 computers are running a new version of the Mac OS X operating system, according to sources. UPDATE: More info about the 10.3.5 version.

This is the first installment of ThinkSecret's "Inside Tiger" series, covering Mac OS X Version 10.4. Today, they begin looking at one of Tiger's most touted features, Spotlight, a new suite of systemwide search tools. Elsewhere, SMH in Australia has a Tiger article. Update: Appleinsider has more Tiger articles with screenshots: 1, 2, 3, 4.

Rael Dornfest, co-author of Mac OS X Panther Hacks, has selected these three hacks from the book for your sampling pleasure. The first two detail how to find anyone in your Address Book who has an Amazon Wish List, and how to build a GUI to your Unix scripts with a bit of Perl/Python; the third is fun.

Apple says the client and server versions of Mac OS X "Tiger" sport powerful changes under the hood, but there are also noticeable improvements to the interface. Here's a slideshow showing some features.

On this report I will detail some Mac OS X Tiger WWDC build (8A162) new features that will be illustrated with many screenshots. I will try to focus on features other sites did not report yet.

"Mac OS X Server "Tiger" features Xgrid, iChat and Blog server", "Apple seeds Safari 1.3 DP1, Java 1.5 DP to developers", "An inside look at Safari 1.3 Developer Preview", "Apple Remote Desktop 2 based on open source VNC goes cross-platform", "Apple Readies Search Technology For Macs", "Apple Putting More Focus on Simplifying Searching" and "Apple releasing new search-enhanced system".

As Futurama's Professor Hubert Farnsworth usually says: "Good news everyone...". Apple introduced today its upcoming 64-bit enhanced Tiger operating system due in the first quarter of 2005. Click in for our report from today's WWDC opening which includes 18 pictures of the event.

MacRumors claims to have found some screenshots from the upcoming OSX Tiger showing some new features and the ability to "disable" the UI of the parent window if a focused/modal window is on top. They also include a PDF file with installation instructions, in which OSX requires a DVD drive to get installed. Please note that the MacRumors information is unconfirmed and not official by any means. Update: This is most probably fake, read the comments for more opinions on this.

This paper thoroughly covers Mac OS X application management. Topics include: licensing models, security considerations, reviewing installations, missing Mac OS X applications, missing Mac OS X features, distribution tools, and deployment and distribution solutions

Apple released a security patch that fixes what the company called the first "critical" Mac OS X flaw. Apple today also introduced AirPort Express, "the world's first 802.11g mobile base station that can be plugged directly into the wall for wireless Internet connections and USB printing, or thrown into a laptop bag to bring wireless freedom to hotel rooms with broadband connections." More here and here.