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Mac OS X Reaches First Birthday

Posted by pudge on from the and-i-forgot-a-present dept.

hotsauce writes "Mac OS X is one year old, and the Washington Post has a good summary. What do people think now that we're at the promised '12 o'clock'? What's in the year ahead?" I dunno what's in the year ahead, but as for today, I got a new TiBook and had a kernel panic while watching the This Is Spinal Tap Special Edition DVD.

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  1. Re:Extension Hell by shawnce · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually not true...

    For files that have type & creator properly set you will have no issues (same as in MacOS).

    File extensions are not required in Mac OS X but they are recommended by Apple. They are recommended because MOST other OSes use file extensions to type files and this is a wired world we live in.

    So file extensions are NOT madatory but ARE recommended and type & creator are still used when needed.

    10.1.3 also has improved support for setting application preferences even for files that have creator set (didn't used to allow one to change app prefs if creater was set).

  2. Re:10.2 imminent? by rehannan · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well, according to some of the Mac rumor sites, 10.2 will be released at MacWorld New York (July 16).

  3. Mac and XP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    I have been happily awaiting Os X development and have held out buying apple products. I even recently bought a new Windows box (1.6 ghz 640mb DDR-Ram, etc.) But, I visited Comp USA today and looked at the new flat Imac and the 22" Cinema Screen dual 1 ghz g4, and I can definitely say that I will be an apple buyer in the near future.

    OS X is now just as fast as my Windows XP (and that's FAST), and the Aqua user interface is light years ahead of XP. It is clear why Apple is a true innovator in this industry, and I tell you, Microsoft, you had better watch out. Apple is going to be the next big thing, again.

  4. Re:10.2 imminent? by gvsu_snow_lord · · Score: 1, Informative
    The ability to build XNU (OSX's kernel) with the tools on the developer CD

    Have you checked out Building the XNU on Mac OS X 10.1.1 f(for mortals) With that pointed out... Apple should make the different parts of darwnin easier to check out (find the latest working code... Apple-201-5 is the xnu for 10.1.1 make sence to you?)... oh and it would be nice to have the cvs reflect the current state of xnu development... instead of being a week or two behind private workings at apple.

  5. Re:Extension Hell by kubrick · · Score: 3, Informative

    MIME, or Datatypes (I'm only aware of that having been implemented on Amiga and Be, but think of Unix's file on steroids.)

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