A Glimpse At Apple's New Core

Coolvibe writes: "Apple has updated their Mac OS X page. There's screenshots of the final version there. I myself am still running the Public Beta and the stuff that's shown there is just a *tad* different than what I am using right now :) For instance, the dock now has a context menu, as shown here." And speaking of Apple's core, Justin0407 directs your attention to this NYTime article on Steve Jobs, in which "Jobs gives us his insight on how he's going to save Apple and try and keep it afloat. Building on other's ideas of a PC or Mac being the 'hub' for all digital appliances, Jobs says Apple will embrace this concept."

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OSX is where we all want to be

[Ars-Fartsica]

Unix functionality right there beside real support for multimedia, and real support for the important apps we inevitably use (Word, Excel) by virtue of everyone else using them.

This appears to be a phenomenal product. I am seriously considering ditching my windows and linux boxes both and moving to a Mac once this hits the shelves.

Its just seems that OSX is where Gnome and KDE want to get to, but will probably never arrive. While I believe in these open-source efforts, I can't be bothered to wait around for them anymore.

server apps = MacOsX Server

[firewort]

the Mac OsX server product has been quietly updated to encompass just these kinds of intranet / extranet LAN/WAN serving.

it'll be the same as the desktop product, except with the apps for more server oriented things included in the box.


A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close

Re:MS Office for OS X

[Ryano]

A Mac OS X version of Office doesn't really make versions for other Unices more likely. The version Microsoft will release in Autumn will be OS X native, but via the Carbon API. For those of you who haven't been keeping up, Carbon is a new version of the "Classic" Mac OS API and MS will not have to rewrite Office from scratch in order to make it OS X native.

So the chances of MS releasing Office for Unix remain slim, unless Carbon becomes available on other Unices. I would say that the chances of this are even slimmer.

However, perhaps there is a project I'm not aware of to implement the Carbon API on Unix? It strikes me as a prohibitively complex task.

Re:And another thing

[Ryano]

What's more, these UI changes are discussed in much greater detail at Wincent.org

This is a hands-on review of the build which was demonstrated at MacWorld. Some of the key points are:

• Multiple monitor support in place
• Instant wake-up from sleep
• Hierarchical browsing from the Dock (but only 5 levels deep)
• Mouse sroll wheels supported only in Cocoa apps (e.g. not the Finder)
• Network utility provides GUI for netstat, ping, traceroute etc. (and port scanning!)
• Quicktime movies play while in the dock
• Many new languages supported - ability to switch between languages seamlessly
• Text-to-speech, speech recognition
• SSH support by default

Plus lots of other stuff.

And another thing

[biglig2]

OK, a glimpse of OSX's new core isn't a bad attempt at a pun, but it's very innacurate. The post is about a couple of UI changes - very far from kernel changes which you imply.

Woo, now I've started slagging off the content of the posts. I knew I was being too nice all this time.