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Apple Ships OS X 10.7 Lion 'Gold Master' For July Push
An anonymous reader writes "Apple released to developers the 'gold master' version of Mac OS 10.7, known as Lion, in a move that positions the company for a July roll-out. 'With Snow Leopard, Apple's previous Mac OS release, the time between going from gold master status to hitting store shelves was approximately two weeks. However that release required Apple to stamp and produce boxed discs to send out to retail stores. Lion will be the first by Apple to be released only through its Mac App Store as a digital download.'"
...as opposed to? An analogue download?
They all used to be in the applications and utilities folder. What could possibly be simpler than that? And now it forces users to open an online account with Apple. That's not very nice.. There's no mention in the article, does it come down as a burnable iso? And how screwed are the people who just don't happen to have fast internet?
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Hopefully it is.
They'll probably still charge you $4.99 for Xcode. Not terrible, but not great. Finding out gcc4 was not included in the paid version of Xcode... now that was terrible.
People have been focusing on the visual tweaks almost exclusively - but the main thing I'm interested in is Lion finally brings full-disk encryption to us Mac laptop owners.
I kept hoping Truecrypt would offer it, but that feature never made it to the Mac side...
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Posting as AC cause this is NDA stuff.
1) 10.7 can be burned to a DVD or dumped to a USB Flash Key and installed off of. It does NOT require an existing installation of 10.6.8 to INSTALL. You only need an existing 10.6.8 installation to download it- IF you want to get it from the Mac App Store. The relevant file is called "InstallESD.dmg" and weighs in at around 4GB. It is essentially a restore image of what you would otherwise find on a shipping DVD. It comes with what you get off the Mac App Store.
2) 10.7 does NOT REQUIRE AN APPLE ID.
There is NO PROTECTION in 10.7 against piracy. There is NO ONLINE ACTIVATION. There is NO receipt checking through the Mac App Store. For all intensive purposes, it is IDENTICAL to 10.6.8 in that the Mac App Store is just another application in /Applications. The operating system IN NO WAY attempts to verify the legality of your installation, nor does it case.
You can install, configure, and use your machine WITHOUT creating an Apple ID. It is -TOTALLY- optional.
3) 10.7 Server does NOT REQUIRE AN APPLE ID. The Server administration bits come as a single app ("Server.app") that downloads and installs Server Essentials, which is basically all the server side stuff (Open Directory, PostFix, etc). This application does NOT attempt to verify the legality of your "server" NOR DOES IT REQUIRE A SERIAL. Just like #2- if you obtain Server.app from some other place, you can install and use it on a Mac OS X 10.7 system without the need for an Apple ID, or even an internet connection after the Server Essentials packages have been downloaded!
So, please, stop spreading FUD!
10.7 is identical to 10.6. You can clean install it. You don't need 10.6, except for the initial download (which Apple expects you'll do legally- through the Mac App Store). You do not need an Apple ID for anything (you don't loose functionality).
The only thing that has changed- is that Apple is going the digital *distribution* route. They have NOT gone the "digital distribution and locked down DRM and online activation" route.
-AC
Pay attention! Xcode 4.x is free from the Mac App Store if you are running Lion. They said this 2 weeks ago.
I am stuck with Hughesnet, due to living in the boonies. They impose a 425 megabyte limit on my downloads even at the $100 a month plan. The only time it is unlimited is between 2am-7am, which I'm betting isn't enough time to grab an entire OSX distribution. Just getting XCode and the iOS SDK became a race against time once the file hit the 4gb range. I guess I can stay up until 2, then set an alarm for 7 to pause the Mac App Store download until 2 am the next morning. But still, I'd really like to just pay a few extra bucks and have them ship me a DVD. It doesn't even have to come in a fancy box.
$4.99 is great for a professional IDE. Yes, it used to be even better when it was free. But $4.99 is nothing for what you get.
You should find gcc 4.2.1 in /Developer/usr/bin.
XCode is a 4GB download all by itself and is only used by a tiny fraction of Mac users. Why on Earth would Apple want to add that to the already 4GB Lion download? That would be a ludicrous waste of bandwidth, time, and disk space.
In most cases people who have "unlimited" plans get traffic shaping to 64KB after a couple of GB are downloaded, or they get charged extra. I wonder how this is going to pan out for those users who normally never exceed their limits, and naïvely think that upgrading the OS would fall within normal usage patterns.
Xcode 4.something is going free once Lion is released.
gcc is still included in Xcode, iirc, it will be gone in 4.2 or 4.3 (this was explained during WWDC). The gcc less xcode is going to be released around hte same time as iOS 5. "i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1" is installed with 4.0.1
Xcode right now, iirc, defaults to LLVM, but if you want you can change it to GCC or LLVM/GCC
Hopefully it is.
They'll probably still charge you $4.99 for Xcode. Not terrible, but not great. Finding out gcc4 was not included in the paid version of Xcode... now that was terrible.
Apple is moving away from GCC and to Clang and LLVM. This is due partially to the GPLv3 (and the patent issues involved, and this is why Apple will never use the current version of GCC), and partly due to LLVM+Clang being quite an improvement over GCC (although it's presently a mixed bag, looking forward this is a good way to go).
As for the pricing of Xcode 4, it will be kind of disappointing if a license isn't included with Lion. $4.99 is a steal though, so it's difficult to complain too much, but one of the nice aspects of Mac OS X has always been the bundled developer tools.
What the hell do they put into that package to make it 4 GB? Isn't XCode just an IDE and a compiler bundled together?
What the hell do they put into that package to make it 4 GB? Isn't XCode just an IDE and a compiler bundled together?
There are tons of libraries and frameworks for the current version of OS X as well as for past versions of OS X (for cross-compiling projects) and now for different versions of iOS, since the iOS SDK is included. There are also sample projects and an interface builder and debuggers and probably lots of other neat things that I'm not even aware of.
What you install to your hard drive may not end up being that big since there is a lot of optional stuff included in the main XCode download. So no, it's not just an IDE and a compiler. And it would be quite silly of Apple to include something so huge and unnecessary with every download of Lion. Anyone who wants it can just download it separately.
How do you define "far superior"? According to most benchmarks, LLVM still has some miles to go before it produces binaries that are faster than gcc (it does produce a few special cases where LLVM is faster though so it does show promise for the future). For example check out: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=gcc_46_llvm29&num=1
>Apple will still offer the disk in stores, Google it. You'll find that Apple employees have confirmed that users with bandwidth restrictions or users without an internet connection can still update by buying a disk in store.
Hopefully you also mean they will sell to people who just want a nice shiny factory pressed DVD, want to pay using good old American cash, or just don't want to hassle with a huge download even over a "fast" connection.
So the only time 10.7 will "only" be available on the App Store will be a few weeks until the DVDs are printed and shipped to the stores.
Putting it on their app store is great for those who want it that way, but making that the absolute only way would be dumb.
I take it you've discovered MacPorts and/or Fink which implement a BSD-like "ports" system offering all the usual FOSS suspects?
OK, they're source-based rather than binary, but if you're into development that probably wouldn't worry you.
In a survey of 100 programmers, 111111 thought that duck-typing was a good idea.
Although most of the stuff that I have seen says an 'Intel Mac', Lion does not support Core Duo macs, like the 'old' iMac that I am typing this on, bah, poo!
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people that lack fast Internet aren't necessarily screwed, since Apple is allowing anyone to use the Wi-Fi in their retail stores to download the OS.
Does this apply to Apple Authorized Resellers as well, or does it apply only to "Apple Store"? These may be well over an hour's drive away from even a substantial city; for example, there are only two in Indiana. And does it apply to iMac and Mac mini, or only to MacBook?
That's where they put the 'magic'.
$ du -c -h -s *
312K About Xcode.app
234M Applications
2.3G Documentation
62M Examples
29M Extras
1.8M Headers
4.0K Icon
159M Library
1.1M Makefiles
151M Platforms
468M SDKs
244K Tools
509M usr
3.9G total
Apple contributed a lot of changes upstream, but they were not merged. At some point, they stopped and decided to focus on LLVM instead.
I think your reinstall path would be boot from the 10.6 disk, update to 10.6.6 (to get the Mac app store), then reinstall Lion (you'll be able to redownload Lion as many times as you like).
I keep hearing this complaint, but given most of us have spent several Saturdays a year for 15 years now futzing with Windows installs, this most likely one time nuisance is nothing, relatively.
Will new mac ship with a restore disk or usb key?
Or will you have to take to an apple store if you need a new HDD or old one get's messed up?
Apple is unable to ship the version of GCC benchmarked there, because of GPLv3. LLVM produces much better code than GCC 4.2.1, which is the last GPLv2 version, and the version that Apple ships.
Also, be aware that none of those benchmarks were for Objective-C, which is the language that Apple cares the most about. In terms of features, GCC now lags there. It doesn't support automatic reference counting, for example, and this gives a nice performance boost when coupled with the optimisations in LLVM (fewer autoreleased objects, faster reference count modifications, complete elision of some operations where it can prove that retains and releases are not needed).
Clang is also pretty modular. If you use XCode, the IDE is doing syntax highlighting using the same front end that it uses for compiling with clang. It's displaying error messages as you type via the same mechanism. The integrated static analysis and ARC migration tools are also implemented as Clang libraries and just called from XCode.
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$29? For a software update? And you're happy about it? Wow. I've been running Windows XP for almost 10 years, and haven't spent another dime on it.
Upgrading a 10.x Mac to 10.7 is something like upgrading a Windows XP machine to Windows 7. How much would Microsoft charge you to do that?
Of course, if your main goal is to never spend a dime on your computer, then as a Mac owner you would be free to continue running your pre-installed version of MacOS/X without upgrading. Nobody is forcing anyone to upgrade.
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partly due to LLVM+Clang being quite an improvement over GCC
Strange, then why I'm getting way over twice as long execution times on clang as on gcc? Both on amd64 and armel.
Not tested on Macs, but I doubt code that does little I/O would be markedly different between platforms. ./crawl -rc test/stress/woken_rest -sprint -sprint-map dungeon_sprint_1
For example:
git clone git://gitorious.org/crawl/crawl.git
(compile, both with flto and -O9)
time
gcc: 12.609s
clang: 28.570s
Having an abysmal support for C++ standards and terrible diagnostics doesn't sway things towards clang as well.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
It will install onto a blank drive - you only need 10.6.8 (or higher) to be able to download it from the App Store. You can then save that onto a USB stick or burn to DVD.
You don;t need to put Snow Leopard back on, and then upgrade over it immediately, it will simply install onto a fresh drive if you want to, eg in the case of a drive failure or upgrade, or installing onto a second volume or into a VM.
Why are they not giving people an option to buy physical media? Because the Hackintosh community is running around tell people that it is alright to install that license of OS X they payed for on their computer, even if it is not a Macintosh. If they are legally in the right or not, this significantly weakens their argument. We go from the user saying, "I purchased this box of software and now you think you can tell me what computer I may install it on." To Apple saying, "You agreed to the iTunes store terms (or those presented at time of purchase) before you licensed Lion from us. You clearly cannot claim that you are now allowed to install it on a generic PC when you already agreed you would not."
Thank goodness I only run OS X on Apple branded hardware.
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