Apple Releases Mac OS X Lion, Updates Air

steffann was one of several readers to note that Apple has released OS X Lion for $30 available only through the Mac App Store. It's a 4 gig download so you better not be in a hurry. Lots of new stuff both cosmetic and functional. But if you're the sort of person who is going to install it today, then you already know what they are! They also updated the Air lineup, dropping the old white MacBooks entirely.

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penis

[Anonymous Coward]

i'm all gay and stuff. but not gay enough to use apple.

linux for my gay-loving cock all the way!

Re:Not everybody has 18 Mbps

[Lunix Nutcase]

Maybe you should stop living in some backwater shithole? I have middle tier cable service and 4 gig downloads are nothing.

Re:First Download?

[gumbi west]

They make a USB version for purchase in the store.

Having used Ubuntu for awhile now I really appreciate the Apple way of doing things. A few complaints about ubuntu:

• when the version of my four day old local copy of the repository was not correct, the GUI offered no help, it just wouldn't work;
• the GUI for apt-get doesn't let me refresh the local copy of the repository, forcing me to us the CLI, sigh;
• there is no "open" command on the Ubuntu CLI (on Apple's this is like a double click, it open the file with the program it is associated with), this is both obvious and easy (you already have the associations if you have a GUI double click);
• the Ubuntu package manager is crustier than the Mac package manager, i.e. the apt-get for unison is way out of date, the Mac Ports version is newer;
• after I installed sshd via the apt-get GUI, it just started running and I had no way of controlling it except via the config file. If I was a user who didn't understand the CLI, I would be cooked at this point. The config file is a good place to fine tune, but basic options like on/off should be in the GUI (and I should have to turn it on myself), but not even saying something like, "if you want to control this security nightmare, you need to learn to use the CLI. Just as a heads up, I turned on remote root access by password so you'd better run." The only helpful note was that you should have a good password before you install. If you read slashdot you know users can not be relied on to do that.
• GUIs for servers are not unified. Apple has put all servers on/off switches and the basic settings they let you modify in the GUI in a single place, this makes managing a computer much easier when you are talking about a laptop you want just a few servers running on for odds and ends uses (obviously, for production server a GUI with less than complete functionality is more annoying than helpful, but I'm talking about the versions for a desktop/laptop here). They did more than that too, like when you start a server, it changes the firewall config to allow the server to accept incoming connections.

Basically, the Ubuntu GUI is half-baked. It would be better if it weren't there. I'll stick with my Apple and happily pay more for a computer that just works and never makes me move from GUI to CLI. If I want to do something that requires the CLI (like using the package manager) then I start and end on the CLI.

Walled Garden

[hercubus]

I hope with this version the garden wall is a lot higher; I'm tired of the riffraff poking their noses over the wall and complaining about the wall, the garden, the garden's occupants, their own wallet, their holey pants, etcetera