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Ars Technica Reviews OS X 10.5

Posted by kdawson on from the latin-for-exhaustive dept.

E1ven writes "Ars Technica has published their in-depth review of the newest version of Mac OS X. John Siracusa both covers the user-visible features such as the new UI tweaks and Time Machine, and dives into the increased use of metadata and the new APIs introduced and what they mean for the future of OS X."

3 of 522 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Hatred for the interface changes by Carthag · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you read the other reviews Siracusa did for Ars Technica, you'll see that he has a long and difficult history with the OS X GUI. If I were you I'd try out 10.5 myself and see if it is a worthwhile update or not. All in all, I got the impression from his interview that while there were some changes that he absolutely loathes (rounded menus etc), there are many as well which he have been longing for (disabling the "are you sure" check when changing extensions for instance) or which really impressed him with their usability (quicklook).

  2. Re:OSX and security by Mathi�u · · Score: 5, Informative
    The article looks wrong, my install of Mac OS X Leopard doesn't exhibit any of the issues he describes:

    $ netstat -an | fgrep LISTEN
    tcp4 0 0 127.0.0.1.631 *.* LISTEN
    tcp6 0 0 ::1.631 *.* LISTEN
    $ lsof -iUDP
    COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
    SystemUIS 164 username 9u IPv4 0x674d458 0t0 UDP *:*
    Adium 175 username 8u IPv4 0x674ca38 0t0 UDP *:49181
  3. Re:I see no reason for a geek to upgrade by Llywelyn · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is nothing new in Leopard that would interest most geeks.

    This is a troll, right?

    • DTrace
    • 64 bit
    • Unix certification
    • Scripting bridges for Ruby and Python, Xcode and IB support for them.
    • Sandboxing.
    • Terminal improvements (lots of them)
    • CoreAnimation
    • CoreText
    • Objective-C 2.0 w/ Garbage Collection
    • LLVM for OpenGL (and more uses coming soon)
    • More efficient and more widespread use of threading.
    • ZFS soon.
    • Boot Camp

    What exactly on this list is "not of interest to geeks"?

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    Integrate Keynote and LaTeX