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ArsTechnica Posts Mac OS X 10.2 Review
hype7 writes "ArsTechnica have posted their review on Mac OS X 10.2. John Siracusa has been writing the reviews of Mac OS X since way back with the developer previews, and in my experience they've been the most thorough, thoughtful and unbiased reviews of Mac OS X on the web. Well worth a read." He does do a fine job; so if you needed one last fix of looks at Jaguar, here you go.
10.0.x were for the true bleeding edge.
10.1.x were for most Mac users.
10.2 is for every Mac user.
A fairly computer illerate mac user asked me about a week ago if they should get Jaguar (10.2). I replied "With 10.2, there is no reason anyone with a machine that Apple says can run OS X is not running it."
Unless you are running a specialized application that does not run under Classic, there is no reason not to be running OS X if your machine supports it.
The speed, support, and stability are all there to make this a great operating system.
The fact that I was able to throw in an old video card, a spare 100Base-T card and a USB card into my G4 at once and have them all immediately recognized and supported is simply amazing. Apple has done wonderful work with this transition.
And I have a two-button scroll optical mouse natively supported, for everyone who might chime in with that.
- (c) 2018 Hank Zimmerman
"With 10.2, there is no reason anyone with a machine that Apple says can run OS X is not running it."
I have a feeling that I've seen it officially
stated somewhere that Blue and White G3's with
DVD drives and hardware decoding don't have DVD
playback under 10.2.
For me, that's a perfectly good reason not to run OS X.
There is a global icon size setting: With a finder window open, select "Show View Options" from the View menu. The first choice at the top of the preferences window is "This Window Only" or "All Windows".
Yup. And it's broken. Has been for quite awhile.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - BF
Regarding the VWM and Space: you might want to check out Virtual Desktop . Its not free in any sense (except for a trial/limited functionality version - 2 desktops only) but seems to be worth the price compared to what Space offers for free. Of course, when space gets a few versions older, Virtual Desktop might not be so far ahead.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.
Teach him to eat and he will fish forever.
Not when you consider that John overlooked some state of this release. He could have waited for the first update and done the world a bigger favor.
... let's get down to the nitty gritty. Jaguar marks
the first public release of these APIs, and there are several fairly
big known problems and issues already that we want you to be aware of.
The largest number of issues are in the filesystem generation code.
Read this from the disc recording developer list...
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First things first
Known issues in 6C115:
(1) [Content] ISO-9660/Joliet broken - there are problems in the ISO/Joliet structures written to disc which make files deeper than the root directory unreadable on Windows 2000 and XP. (Specifically, the parent directory pointers in the path table are incorrect.) Some ISO-9660/Joliet implementations can read these discs successfully, but you should not rely upon them to work everywhere.
(2) [Content] Virtual filesystem hierarchies broken - the APIs to create and burn virtual hierarchies (DRFile.h, DRFolder.h, DRContentFile.h, and DRContentFolder.h) do not work. You will get an error when burning, and in some cases may crash due to a bad pointer reference inside the filesystem generator.
(3) [Content] HFS+ CDs report a (harmless) "bitmap needs minor repair" when run through Disk First Aid.
(4) [CoreEngine, DiscRecUI] Certain notifications having to do with the drive tray state may not be sent. When a disc is ejected via the keyboard eject button, or when the tray is opened via the front panel eject button on the drive, you are supposed to get a device status changed notification, but won't. This is visible in the DiscRecording UI components as well; we're waiting on a bugfix and an additional feature from IOKit before this will work.
(5) [Content] Virtual links (symlinks, aliases) are mostly untested and may not work correctly. (6) [Content] UDF is not yet available in the first release.
(7) [DiscRecUI] Carbon/C APIs to the UI components are not yet available in the first release.
That's all I have on my notepad at the moment. The good news is, the first three have been fixed already and scheduled for release with the first Jaguar update. I don't have timeframes available for when, other than "soon". The remainder are being worked on but I don't have timeframes available for those either.