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New Version of Mac OS X Leopard Leaked

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bad-day-for-big-cats dept.

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."

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  1. Well, by Klaidas · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, if they gave it out... how could they possibly think that it won't leak? Software, music, movies leak without giving them out. And now, there's the release of an expensive operating system and they give it out...
    I mean, how could they be sure that just signing the document would stop anyone? Sharing music, movies, etc. is illegal, but look at ftp servers, emule, torrents, etc.
    It the Internet, apple, think different!

    1. Re:Well, by andrewman327 · · Score: 5, Insightful
      It might surprise you, but most people really do follow the "not so fine print." Look at how many people hhave access to Windows source code yet there has only been one well known leak.


      This shouldn't really matter to Apple anyway. This will increase speculation about the OS on sites like /. and any publicity is good publicity. The mainstream media will probably not even care about this whatsoever. A quick glance at Google News shows that very few non-geeky news sources have picked up the story.

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    2. Re:Well, by TheGreek · · Score: 5, Insightful
      They could have given a slightly different copy to everyone present. Just change a few bytes here and there.
      Prohibitively expensive to do on pressed DVDs, but I've long thought that Apple's seeding servers should do precisely that.
  2. Garbage Collection in Objective C by argent · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's the *big* feature. Screw the user interface tweakage, being able to forget about release pools and the rest of the manual storage management twaddle is going to be amazing.

  3. Summary by kevin_conaway · · Score: 5, Informative

    Since I'm not a mac-head, the summary didn't make too much sense to me.

    Spaces: a new application for the Leopard operating system that enables users to group different applications in separate environments.

    Time Machine: you can back up and preserve everything on your Mac -- including priceless digital photos, music, movies, and documents -- without lifting a finger, you can go back in time to recover anything you've ever backed up.

  4. Glad this article's on Slashdot by Rik+Sweeney · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've been waiting ages for this to download, now that it's on Slashdot we'll get more seeders!

    Listens out for the sound of Bittorrent clients starting up...

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  5. Re:A little conspiracy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Crazy idea here...
    Yes, yes it is. Why do these retarded conspiracy theories always get modded up? Even if Apple were intending to sell Mac OS X for third party PCs they still wouldn't care about compatibility on some random hobbyist/pirate's setup. Never mention the effort required to collect the data from random blogs all over the internet.
  6. Clarification (nitpick)... by Cjays · · Score: 5, Informative
    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.
    They didn't have us sign anything. Obviously there was an already established legal agreement, but nothing was signed on the spot.
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  7. Re: Big mac fan not sure about Leopard by eczarny · · Score: 5, Informative

    Comments like this have been driving me insane. These features were announced at a developers conference. The majority of what Steve discussed about leopard was aimed at said developers. It may not seem like a whole lot of excitement to some. But to those developing on the platform, there is a lot to look forward to. - Garbage collection in Objective-C - An updated QTKit - Time Machine's API - Improved Spotlight - CoreAnimation - Xcode 3 - DashCode - Improved Boot Camp - And more that I can't think of off the top of my head.

  8. Re:Serious question. by Rob86TA · · Score: 5, Informative

    Apple and MS have different motivation to release a 5-pack.

    Apple sells hardware... by letting you install on 5 computers, they are hoping you will buy 4 more computers. $$$ in their pocket.

    MS doesn't sell hardware... by letting you install on 5 computers, they have removed 4 purchases the revenue stream. Sure you give more $$$ to Dell, Sony, or the whitebox dealer... and they just sold 4 less copies of XP. That's why there is no 5 pack for XP.