Apple to Release first Tiger Update

Ninj4Bytes writes "AppleInsider is reporting on the first update to Mac OS X Tiger. The update is reported to address 'over three dozen componets, with an emphasis on improving general stability and reliability'. The patch is listed for a mid to late May release."

Comments

Good

[Winterblink]

Tiger overall is a great upgrade from Panther. It's got some really neat new features and there's bound to be several of them that anyone will use. That being said, important new core features like Spotlight are not working as advertised for many users. Other things, like Quartz 2D Extreme which is desigend to offload almost all the UI work to the GPU, was buggy enough to be disabled in the Tiger release. There's a lot of work there that's relatively unfinished, and I think it's great that Apple's making motions to get things in order mere weeks after its release.

Re:Good

[dr.badass]

Clearly shown in the sample (and indeed demoed by Steve Jobs himself at various keynotes) are the keywords assigned to the photos in the iPhoto software. This has never been searchable on my system, even after a rebuild and repair of permissions by the install disc.

I haven't experienced this problem myself, but here are some things you might try, in Terminal:

mdimport -L will list all of your Spotlight importers -- there should be one for iPhoto, but if there's not, then that's your problem. I don't know why you wouldn't have it, though.

mdimport -r /System/Library/Spotlight/iPhoto.mdimporter will force Spotlight to reindex everything that that importer can index.

Re:Let's hope they fix Dashboard

[crawdad62]

Just go to ~(username)->Library->Widgets and drag them out.

Inaccuracy alert!

[avalys]

You should check your facts before you accuse other people of spreading FUD. If you read the very article you link (at ArsTechnica), you will see confirmation that Quartz 2D Extreme is disabled in Tiger.

From the second to last pair of paragraphs in your link...

"There's one final barrier to hardware-accelerated bliss. Quartz 2D Extreme is disabled by default in Mac OS X 10.4.0. That's right, the whiz-bang new technology you just read all about is not actually used in Tiger unless it's explicitly enabled using the Quartz Debug application. Even then, it only applies to applications that are launched after it was turned on. It also appears that Q2DE is re-disabled when you quit the Quartz Debug application.

Why develop something as impressive as Quartz 2D Extreme and then leave it turned off by default? My inquiries to Apple have gone unanswered, so I can only speculate about the reasoning behind this decision. My best guess is that all of the bugs could not be excised from Q2DE in time for Tiger's launch date, and that it will be enabled by default in a subsequent update--perhaps as early as version 10.4.1."

Re:This isn't the type of post that belongs on /.

[Winterblink]

100% of the stories posted on Slashdot don't belong on Slashdot, depending on your perspective. For instance, I don't give a flying fuck about most of the *nix stories posted here, so I:

a) don't read them
b) sure as hell don't post in them about how they don't belong on Slashdot

Now I do this because even though from my perspective I come here for other types of geek news and errata, other people do come here for those types of information. In case you didn't realize, there's a handy feature found in your user profile on Slashdot that allows you to remove items from being shown on your homepage (example: Apple-related news). Give it a try.

Re:This is pretty common...

[Chief Typist]

There's a simple reason for this -- after the release is declared final, and the GM disk image is created, there is still testing going on.

During the time that the GM disk is being pressed and shipped, the people in the QA department are finding bugs and engineers are fixing them.

Apple then distributes the fixes with Software Update after ADC members have time to test the seed (giving them a week or two to do it.)

-ch