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Apple Announces Its New Desktop OS macOS Sierra Featuring Siri, Apple Pay (9to5mac.com)

Posted by msmash on from the new-os dept.

After playing with the names of cats and a few California landmarks, Apple at WWDC 2016 announced that its desktop operating system will now be called macOS -- and its first version update is macOS Sierra. It comes with a range of new features including Siri, the digital voice assistant. The move comes roughly a year and a half after Microsoft brought its Cortana virtual assistant to desktop platform Windows 10. Sierra also supports Apple Pay payment service via Safari web browser. Ars Technica reports about some other features of macOS Sierra: Universal Clipboard answers a longstanding complaint of Mac and iOS users -- copying and pasting now works automatically between an iOS device and a desktop Mac device. iCloud now plays an expanded sync role, too, letting you move files and folders from Mac to Mac or from Mac to iOS. Another new feature called Optimized Storage can sweep through old documents and files and push them to iCloud, clearing up local disk space for other uses. It also can automatically dump your trash, clear your web history, and do some other behind the scenes sweeps. Tabs are coming to more and more applications. Federighi said that Apple wants tabs on all multi-window applications, and says that tabs can be flipped on without developer modification. Update: 06/13 18:55 GMT by M : macOS Sierra won't support many Mac models from 2007, 2008, and 2009. Find more information here.

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  1. Re:macOS and FreeBSD leave no place for Linux. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    UFS w/ Soft updates pretty much the right choice for any workstation or small server running FreeBSD. ZFS is amazingly powerful and flexible, but it's usually the wrong choice for most situations.

    BtrsFS for Linux is lighter weight than ZFS and for a workstation or small server, it has the necessary features and superior typical performance. These days people do distributed storage through higher level layers than what ZFS offers. The local file system's durability is almost irrelevant in an age of cloud and cheap NAS.

  2. Re:macOS and FreeBSD leave no place for Linux. by Dog-Cow · · Score: 0, Troll

    Perhaps if you spent more time flipping burgers and less time on slashdot, you'd be able to afford some real hardware.