New Version of Mac OS X Leopard Leaked

the linux geek writes "InfoWorld has an article informing us that an early beta of Mac OS X 10.5 has been leaked. This appears to be the same build Steve Jobs previewed at WWDC, and contains most of the new features, including Time Machine and Spaces." From the article: "Attendees at last week's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) received copies of the beta ware and had to sign legally binding agreements not to let Leopard stray onto file-sharing networks. Perhaps someone didn't read the not-so-fine print? MacUser reports that this version of Leopard is indeed legit, unlike a fake one that was reportedly making its rounds last week. The version of Leopard available on BitTorrent is 4.3GB, containing 93 files."

Comments

Wondering if it was intentional

[Anonymous Coward]

Anyone ever consider that maybe Apple did this intentionally? They'd get a lot of feedback and
get us to test a beta for them, and not only that, but they can always come back with
"it was a leaked beta" if something really blows. Personally, I think they're trying to
use us and kill two rabbits with one stone.

NOP

Re:Does the copy have all the apps?

[niktemadur]

Wait til it's done. Then you don't have to fix what ain't broke.

My thoughts precisely. I can always understand people wanting to try out the latest of anything, but I'd always rather wait until the stabler versions come around. Rule of thumb: never go for the any version of 10.X.1, always wait for 10.X.5 at least. With Apple Support the way it is described in most OSX Forums (bad to worse), why put yourself in a position for potential grief for weeks on end? Furthermore, this is not taking into account that the GGGP post is talking about OSX as warez, with no warranties involved.

My wife is running her iBook with 10.3.9 flawlessly, she doesn't need Dashboard, I told her that she, ahem, don't have fix what ain't broke. I'm running Tiger on my iMac only because it came in the box, I'm up to 10.4.7, and have no intention of switching to Leopard until it's up to at least 10.5.7. By which time, Cheetah or Ocelot or whatever it's gonna be called, will already be floating around.