Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.1.4

terbor writes "Networking, security, and authoring support seem to be the biggest improvements found in this update released this afternoon. Not available for download yet, but it can be found in your Software Update panel." I would have posted this sooner, but I had to download it first. :-)

Comments

Re:Just Installed

[tps12]

Just installed it via the good ol' Software Update utility. So far, everything is normal. I'm so used to the Windows updater which normall breaks something. So, what do I do with all this extra time?

What sad times when "it didn't break anything" is what passes for a good review.

I for one am a big fan of Changelogs. Apple's Software Update descriptions are always a little lacking IMO ("OS X 10.1.4 Update: adds 0.0.1 units of operating system updatedness to your computer").

Cut this Kid some slack...

[Spencerian]

I've been reading enough whiny posts about Mac OS X's speed and stability to ask everyone a single important question:

How much usefulness did you get out of Windows 1.0? Out of Linux 1.0?

Mac OS X is the culmination of many tried and true technologies and a few new ones. For a 1.0 product (which it really is as opposed to merely a tenth OS revision of the Mac OS), it's got a LOT of power and potential.

I've used Macs since their move to the hierarchal file system (true nesting of subdirectories). That was 1986 or so. The Finder at the time wasn't close to multitasking anything like Mac OS 8, there was no such thing as virtual memory, the Mac Plus was a rather underpowered little beast...

....and nothing could tear it from my fingers, because there was still nothing like it.

The original Mac OS took 17 years to mature to what it is now. That's a long time in computing years, and Apple won't have that much luxury to make OS X as robust and mature.

But, considering the code base and the venerable ancestry that BSD and Mach have had, this is a beautiful, powerful baby. Flawed, to be sure, but how much productive work has your 1 year old done?

The 10.2 update will continue the speed increases. By 10.5, perhaps in less than 2 years this OS will be righteous.

Just don't treat it like OS 9 or you'll hose it good (don't move standard apps from Applications or get too crazy yet). This is a Macintosh operating system, and Apple's a little new to this UNIX desktop thing.