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Mac OS X 10.5.3 To Fix Over 200 Bugs, Coming Soon

Posted by timothy on from the in-the-meantime-use-deet dept.

An anonymous reader writes "MacScoop reports that 'Apple has seeded several builds of its Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.3 update to developers during the past few weeks and just seeded yet another one numbered "9D34" earlier today.' The update fixes over two hundred bugs, weighs almost half a gigabyte and should be available soon."

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  1. Service pack 3? by apathy+maybe · · Score: 1, Troll

    So, let's see if I understand this correctly, this is sorta like a Service pack three, but for Mac OS 10.5?

    Does this just fix bugs? Or is it a feature release as well?

    Can people on dial up get a free CD sent out?

    (No, I don't use MS Windows, I also don't use Mac OS, though I have used it extensively at school/uni in the past and always preferred it to MS Windows. Mind you, it was a lot easy to fuck up the school Win98 machines then the Mac OS 9 ones... I use Ubuntu.)

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  2. I call bogus by clickclickdrone · · Score: 0, Troll

    Macs have no bugs, everyone knows that. This is just scaremongering by the Windows crowd. Yep, that'll be it.

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  3. Re:Big Creepy Crawlies... by Free+the+Cowards · · Score: -1, Troll

    Apple doesn't do delta updates. They do ship updates which only carry the changed files, but those updates contain a complete copy of the files in question. This means that if a 60MB binary needs one byte changed to fix one bug, that bug fix adds 60MB to the update. With the typical OS install clocking in at several gigabytes it's entirely believable that a slew of small fixes would require a 500MB of files to be changed.

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