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Mac OS X "Tiger" Enters Final Candidate Stage

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the sure-wish-i-had-devel-seeds dept.

Orangez writes "Apppleinsider.com reports that 'Tiger' reaches the final candidate stage. 'With massive software projects such as Tiger, Apple will sometimes seed several final candidate builds before one is declared gold master...'" The final release has widely been speculated to be in the next month or two.

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  1. FP? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I woulda got first post but Bittorrent is using all my bandwidth downloading OS X Tiger Final Canidate.

    sgarringer@gmail.com

  2. Re:Question: by FidelCatsro · · Score: 4, Funny

    Apple OS XI "west highland terrier"

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  3. point releases by cocoamix · · Score: 5, Funny

    All this talk about "point releases" is just semantics. I know most Slashdotters aren't zoologists, but all significant OS X upgrades are SPECIES updates.

    Jumping over to Family Canidae from Family Felidae, would you upgrade from a Chihuahua that shits on your keyboard to a Golden Retriever that fetches beer and Hot Pockets? I sure would.

    That's about the difference that Tiger is going to be over 10.0 (Cheetah).

  4. Question by mattmentecky · · Score: 4, Funny

    If Linus and Apple with their Tiger release got together and released an OS would you have a Liger, only like, the best OS ever? Gosh.

  5. 10.4? I can't wait for 11! by microcars · · Score: 5, Funny
    The Catwomen point series!

    11.0 Halle Berry
    11.1 Eartha Kitt
    11.2 Julie Newmar
    11.3 Nastassja Kinski...

    meow!

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  6. This is why Windows is better! by beef3k · · Score: 5, Funny

    I mean, if you stick with Microsoft you'll only have to pay for a new OS every 7-10 years or so!

  7. Re:before anyone else does it... by mrm677 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It seems to me that Apple are doing versioning right.

    The way it should work is x.y.z

    z: Bug fixes
    y: New features
    x: Backwards compatibility break

    Does that mean Windows XP should really be called Windows 3.15.8734?

  8. Re:before anyone else does it... by Theaetetus · · Score: 4, Funny
    Apple sort of painted themselves into a corner with the name OSX. It's sort of the 10th version of the Mac OS, but the X was to make it sound cooler and sort of clever, but what comes after? OS XI?

    Well, people refer to OS X as "Oh, sex", so adding the I on the end would make it "Oh, sexy!"

  9. Re:before anyone else does it... by Bishop923 · · Score: 4, Funny


    z: Bug fixes
    y: New features
    x: Backwards compatibility break

    Does that mean Windows XP should really be called Windows 3.15.8734?

    You probably want to drop the z value a bit :-)

  10. Re:before anyone else does it... by Palshife · · Score: 4, Funny

    He did. You're looking at an overflow.

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  11. Don't Forget to Pay SCO by sabat · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pay your $599 license fee, you slack-off bastards!

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