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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. :-)
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").
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There are some minimal release notes. There are extensive release notes for a developer's point of view in the TechNotes Library, but they are only up to 10.1.3.
I was on the phone with Apple Care today and, while solving an unrelated problem, indicated my frustration about this issue. The tech explained it was a thermal/design issue - the system would get too hot and possibly cause damage to components. The fact that this was still the party line on the day of the OS update would indicate that the lid will stay open for a while.
Seems pretty clear to me from a end user perspective. This is what Software Update told me.
What sad times when "it didn't break anything" is what passes for a good review.
This is a bugfix release. It seems to only fix a few obscure bugs and most users shouldn't notice any difference. "It didn't break anything" is the best review possible for this kind of release.
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Where is "Lip Service" for Mail? That was a nifty piece of work. Small, and it worked. I've been waiting for a year now, but no "Lip Service". I know there are other apps to record with, and I've tried rolling my own (getting frustrated /dev/mic >> foo.aiff` ). If anyone feels the way I do, maybe we can roll out something like it together.
in the process, since I can't just do a `cat
Welp, here's to hoping PPP won't hang my TiBook for a minute then say "The other side is not responding"... uh...
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.
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