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OS X Leopard Ships On October 26th
David in AZ writes "According to the Apple website, Mac OS X Leopard will start shipping on October 26! From their blurb: 'Packed with more than 300 new features, Mac OS X Leopard goes on sale Friday, October 26, at 6:00 p.m. at Apple's retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers, Apple announced today. And, beginning today, customers can place pre-orders on Apple's online store. "Leopard, the sixth major release of Mac OS X, is the best upgrade we've ever released," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "And everyone gets the 'Ultimate' version, packed with all the new innovative features, for just $129.""
to quote BillG at the joint interview at all things digital this year: "steve is well known for his restraint".
Can anybody give some more info regarding development on mac? I have done java development so I guess eclipse works but what about native? Anything else except objective-c ? Does XCode work for other languages as well?
Use open source instead. I plan to update my work computer to Leopard but most of my work actually gets done in Linux. My work computer is a 24" iMac, bought because of the quality and size of the screen mostly, that I run VMWare Fusion on. In Fusion I run several versions of Windows and Linux. The Mac mostly is just used for managing my virtual machines and testing software and websites to make sure they work well with OSX. Windows is of coursed used only for testing the same in different versions of Windows. Linux is where the real work gets done.
Of course if you're not a programmer the apps you're most familiar with might not be open source but if you're a starving student you can save a bundle by bothering to learn the free equivalents. I do like OS X, for certain uses, but I've yet to find any proprietary program for it that is so good or so unique I couldn't replace it's functionality with something free and cross platform.
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