Mac OS X Reaches First Birthday

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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Extension Hell

[fm6]

Apple also has users worried about OS X's reliance on file-name extensions (.doc, .rtf, .gif and so on) to identify file types.

Now that's just plain sad. I've never been a big fan of the Mac, but there's no denything that the way MacOS avoids using extensions to identify files is a Good Idea. The whole concept of extensions is out of date, and leads to no end of problems. I can't believe Apple spent all that time working on OS X and managed to overlook such a basic feature.

Re:Extension Hell

[shawnce]

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).

Re:Extension Hell

[StorminNorman]

I've spoken to an Apple employee about this, and apparently the problem with file extentions is due to a Mexican standoff between the NeXT developers in apple (pro file extentions) and the Mac OS developers (anti file extentions).

Unfortunately, it seems the NeXT guys are winning, while Mac OS X usability suffers as a result (file extentions are the one major thing that annoys me about Mac OS X).

Other than this stupid design flaw, Mac OS X has been great for me ever since I installed Mac OS 10.1 on my iBook (Dual USB) last year.

Re:Extension Hell

[kubrick]

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

1 year, 0 crashes.

[Snuffub]

I dont pretend my experience is typical but since day one when i installed os X (actually a couple weeks prior to day 1... dont worry i then paid for it when it went on sale) I have had a grand total of 0 kernel panics on my beautiful little iMac(400MHz)

that is quite an achievement for apple.

The first beta releases of os x happily coincided with my growing interest in programming. and it was this fortuitous timing that saved me from switching over to linux (which i now use on a server) for me OS X is 100% perfect even with it's little quirks it's the perfect combination of digital media/ office production goodness mixed with an oh so tastey command line interface. i would still be satisfied with this OS if apple froze development and never released another version (well maybe 10.2 would be nice)

So to end this random blabering i say kudo's to apple keep up the good work.

Re:10.2 imminent?

[rehannan]

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

The year ahead.

[saintlupus]

What's in the year ahead?

Twelve more months of Taco bitching about the single mouse button.

Oh, and hopefully some rackmountable Apple gear so I can run a server with a little style. I've been hearing rumors from inside the Compound itself...

--saint

What did you expect?

[Lars T.]

and had a kernel panic while watching the This Is Spinal Tap Special Edition DVD.

What did you expect? This is Mac OS Ten, it doesn't go to eleven yet ;-)