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Apple Updates Panther Via Software Update

Posted by pudge on from the and-it-softens-butter-without-melting-it dept.

arobase writes "Apple releases update to Panther thru Software Update. The build number changes from 7A179 to 7A202. Updates Mail, Exposé and iChat."

6 of 89 comments (clear)

  1. Re:One step closer to Linux by DMDx86 · · Score: 0, Informative

    57 steps for sound card?

    lets see..

    Step 1: /sbin/modprobe es1370

    Where are the other 56 steps? You Mac fanboys really are smart, arent ya?

  2. Re:One step closer to Linux by pediddle · · Score: 1, Informative

    Well, that's 21 more characters than the macboys have to type (not to mention discovering that your card's module is "es1370" -- "what the hell is a module?").

    [I love Linux and have yet to own a Mac, but I can see why the newbies complain]

  3. Re:Hrm, I'm thinking they meant Jaguar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    No.... they meant Panther. It comes up as 'Test software update 10.3'..

  4. Re:One step closer to Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Umm, Hey moron - those 3 lines are commands for different distributions. You pick the one appropriate to yours. Obviously you're not very good at the command line or you would've recognized that.

  5. Re:the reason why they'd do this by Shishio · · Score: 3, Informative

    But no one can be certain until the day 10.3 GM comes.

    Well, the license agreement and the instructions in the installer specifically state that the developer release will not be upgradeable to the full release. So, we can definitely expect not being able to upgrade. I still have it installed, of course, but on separate partitions on work machines and on the main partition only on a test machine.
    --
    Twelve fingers or one, its how you play. ~Gattaca (Vincent)
  6. Re:Setting the Software Update Timing? by neverkevin · · Score: 2, Informative

    You could do with with cron and the command line software update program. But the time it checks shouldn't really matter, it will cache that there are new updates and bug you the next time you login or the next scheduled time. If your computer is off when it was scheduled to run it will check as soon you login. You shouldn't miss anything.