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Apple Freezes Snow Leopard APIs
DJRumpy writes in to alert us that Apple's new OS, Snow Leopard, is apparently nearing completion. "Apple this past weekend distributed a new beta of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard that altered the programming methods used to optimize code for multi-core Macs, telling developers they were the last programming-oriented changes planned ahead of the software's release. ...`Apple is said to have informed recipients of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard build 10A354 that it has simplified the`... APIs for working with Grand Central, a new architecture that makes it easier for developers to take advantage of Macs with multiple processing cores. This technology works by breaking complex tasks into smaller blocks, which are then`... dispatched efficiently to a Mac's available cores for faster processing."
That Windows XP installation you've been running is Windows NT 5.1, and the updates you've been downloading for it are free...just as Apple's updates for Leopard are free, just as Tiger before it, and Panther before that, and so on.
I can't comment, I don't use Apple. Read my original post, I was correcting the incorrect comments about rolling updates for XP.
That's so funny, since you have no idea what you're talking about.
I work on OS security on mostly Linux and UNIX, and some Windows. I also use both at home, computing is my main hobby. I know plenty about all of them.
I know nothing about OSX. That is why I did not comment on it. Again, read my original post rather than falling prey to your emotions.
Then don't frikkin buy one. No skin off either of your noses.
My point exactly. Thank you for reinforcing it.
Look at the timeline for Windows releases. You're comparing major releases (10.X) to point releases (5.1.x)...Apples to oranges.
I believe security updates are released for XP just about every Thursday - or something like that. I cannot make a comparison to Apple since I don't use OSX. Read my post again, you will find no comparison, just a correction of the other poster's comments about Windows.
As opposed to users of Apple's products, eh?
My impression of most Apple users is that they want not to use Microsoft products and do hide inside an elitist little club where there is no need for most of them to be concerned about technical issues. That's fine if that is what they want but those same people should not try to argue with people who do know what they are talking about when it comes to OSes - at least, in my case, when it comes to UNIX, Linux or Windows.
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
frankly, fuck the farmers. you want good shit, move to where the good shit is. i'm sick and tired of hearing people who refuse to change their ways whining that it's other people's responsibility to accommodate them. fuck off.