Mac OS X Tiger Goes Gold

bonch writes "Following up yesterday's story, AppleInsider now reports that Tiger build 8A428 has been deemed the Gold Master for shipping. Sources expect an announcement of Tiger's completion sometime tomorrow." There are far better days to make a product announcement, should a company wish to be taken seriously, but it worked for Gmail!

Comments

Fast!

[CypherXero]

Yesterday:
Apple will sometimes seed several final candidate builds before one is declared gold master...'"

Today:
Tiger build 8A428 has been deemed the Gold Master for shipping

Damn that was fast! I can't believe I miss those builds!

Re:Fast!

[maxjenius22]

There can be only one.

pearpc

[Anonymouse Cownerd]

now if only if i had a computer fast enough to make pearpc usable...

Re:pearpc

[Anonymous Coward]

That's okay, you can still use CherryOS!

They can't go on like this, can they?

[Junior J. Junior III]

So when is Ocelot coming out? And how many big cats are left? Lion, lynx... lynx is overused and probably won't be picked... Any other names?

Re:They can't go on like this, can they?

[superrcat]

Garfield.

Re:They can't go on like this, can they?

[superrcat]

Fine...Pussy Galore.

Re:They can't go on like this, can they?

[kevcol]

So when is Ocelot coming out?

How do you titillate an ocelot?

You oscillate it's tit a lot.

Re:They can't go on like this, can they?

[ztirffritz]

I'm holding out for Egyptian Hairless. Once they have mac mini with Egyptian Hairless installed, I'm buying 2!

Re:They can't go on like this, can they?

[ArsonPanda]

+5 Funny?
only time Garfield has *ever* been funny.

Re:Aprilfools!

[mOoZik]

It would be funnier if TIGER had a LONGHORN! *wink nudge*

Re:April 1st announcement

[buckhead_buddy]

RustNeverSleeps wrote:

An April 1 announcement from Apple actually sort of makes sense, because Apple was incorporated on April 1, 1976. That makes tomorrow Apple's 29th "birthday."

This overlooks that slashdot is a geek website. :-)
Tomorrow will be Apple's 30th birthday (since birthday counting is zero based)
though it is only the 29th anniversary of Apple's birthday (which is what most people who haven't had to debug overflow and off-by-one errors celebrate.

A cunning strategm

[xenocide2]

Announce on April Fool's day, and then just mine the April Fool's posts on slashdot for good ideas!

Beware this 'Tiger' release!

[Anonymous Coward]

**** THE PROOF THAT TIGER IS EVIL ****

T I G E R
84 73 71 69 82 - as ASCII values
3 1 8 6 1 - digits added
\_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/
3 1 8 6 1 - digits added

Thus, "TIGER" is 31861.

Subtract 97 from the number - this is the year Vesuvius erupted, written backwards. It gives 31764.

Add 0791 to it - this is the year IBM announced S/370, written backwards - you will get 32555.

Subtract 38, the symbol of slavery. The result will be 32517.

Add 1983, the year Microsoft introduced Windows 1.0 - the result is 34500.

Turn the number backwards, and add 1778 - the year Oliver Pollock invented '$', the symbol of exploitation, suffering and injustice. The number is now 2321.

This, when read backwards, gives 1232. This is 666 in octal, the number of the Beast...

Evil, QED.

( http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/evilfinder/ef.shtml )

Re:Apple...

[superrcat]

You paid $100 for an operating system that is already 2 versions old? I have some copies of Windows Me I'll sell you for $80.

Re:April 1st announcement

[StikyPad]

B.S.

I was born in '76, and my 30th birthday isn't for another year damnit. Don't steal what little youth I have left.

Re:Yeeeaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!!!!!

[MasonMcD]

I love the current skin

Skin? SKIN?!!! OK, you gnome/KDE hippie. Apple doesn't make "skins". They produce "human interface guidelines" and bond the UI onto an app so tight it'll make your anus pucker.

Unless you're talking about human skin from any "trade dress" lawsuit. In which case, they make lovely lampshades.

Build numbers

[warkda rrior]

... Tiger build 8A428...

Think about this: if the build number is in hex (i.e. 0x8A428), this is the 566,312nd build of Tiger.

Now, about 18 months passed since the release of OSX 10.3. This means that Apple built OSX Tiger about 42 times per hour, without stop since Oct. 2003 (OSX 10.3 release time)!