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Apple To Release Public Betas of iOS 10 and macOS Sierra Today
The next version of Apple's desktop operating system, macOS Sierra, will be made available in a public beta later today. Enthusiasts can also try their hands at iOS 10, the latest version of Apple's mobile operating system today. Both the new operating system versions offer a range of new features and improvements. Sierra, for instance, features Siri voice assistant which will assist users with locating files, answering queries, and search for images and information just by asking. iOS 10 lets users write a message in their own handwriting, and has a feature called "Raise to Wake" which wakes up the device when a user picks up their iPhone. Notifications have gotten more powerful, and now show photos and videos as well. You will find the macOS Sierra preview here, and iOS 10 preview here. More information on Apple's beta program here.
Apple once again provides forced obsolence to their devices, including the device known as the "New iPad".
Uhm, no. I do NOT want or need anyone managing my storage for me, or to deal with service outages leaving my files unavailable. Thanks, but no thanks. Take your cloud service and shove it sideways up your ass until you can taste it.
When you live in a sick society, just about everything you do is wrong.
Linux rules! Crapple drools!
Honestly, I see absolutely NOTHING "drool-worthy" in the desktop environments that Linux users suffer with. Hell, ask an honest Linux user, and most will agree that the popular GUIs for Linux are generally sucktastic. Add to that the internal strife that systemd has added, and Linux is utterly ignore-able by most Mac users.
As for Android, you honestly couldn't pay me to give up my iPhone for that Orphaned Product-Pile and Malware-Fest that is Android.
I actually don't want to ever hear about OSX again, just because the new word is ugly.
Does it run police quest and red baron well?
Well, yeah, but lets be blunt here, by the fact that you decide to call yourself "macs4all" you're also probably physically incapable of being objective about anything if Apple is involved. I prefer Android but would never call myself "Android4All".
I had an iPhone, I feel the opposite: I love being able to use a different browser on my Android phone. You couldn't pay me to have an iPhone. Safari's rendering engine sucks, after I bought my iPhone many years ago I thought "Great! I don't need to lug my laptop around for web admin tasks!" - then found out that Safari wouldn't render pages properly. So I installed a different web browser and same thing.
It was then I found out Apple forces all browsers on iOS to use Safari's rendering engine.
On Android, I actually use a different (non-stock) web browser using a non-Google rendering engine with adblock installed. Can't do that on iOS.
iOS 10 lets users write a message in their own handwriting
Does this mean Nelson will finally be able to beat up Martin? Although I guess Martha will be dissappointed.
What kind of administration do you do that would let you do meaningful work on a 5 inch screen? I'm not trying to be snide here... I'm just thinking about all the things I do, and virtually none of them are so simple that I could do that work on a miniscule mobile device.
Some kind of GUI front end with pre-configured for various common tasks?
Well, yeah, but lets be blunt here, by the fact that you decide to call yourself "macs4all" you're also probably physically incapable of being objective about anything if Apple is involved. I prefer Android but would never call myself "Android4All".
Ok, while we're being blunt: You're nothing but an Anonymous Coward.
What kind of administration do you do that would let you do meaningful work on a 5 inch screen? I'm not trying to be snide here... I'm just thinking about all the things I do, and virtually none of them are so simple that I could do that work on a miniscule mobile device.
Some kind of GUI front end with pre-configured for various common tasks?
Sounds like he's "Admin-ing" some consumer-level networking and peripheral equipment.
IANAA (I am not an Admin), but it seems like one would use VNC to Admin. a Server, rather than a Web Application. And there are several nice VNC/RDP clients for iOS. I use "Jump", personally.
But you're right: regardless of the OS involved, Admin-ing on a mobile screen is, um, challenging.
Hell, ask an honest Linux user, and most will agree that the popular GUIs for Linux are generally sucktastic.
Cinnamon (Mint's main DE) is pretty decent, actually. It's not OSX, sure, but not everyone can afford Apple's stupid prices for subpar hardware.
Circumcision is child abuse.
Honestly, I see absolutely NOTHING "drool-worthy" in the desktop environments that Linux users suffer with.
That's why I use the command line.
ArsTechnica has a decent review, even though its still beta
Honestly, I see absolutely NOTHING "drool-worthy" in the desktop environments that Linux users suffer with.
That's why I use the command line.
So you're posting with Lynx? How does moderation/meta-moderation work with that, I wonder?
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
It was then I found out Apple forces all browsers on iOS to use Safari's rendering engine.
All but one. Opera Mini gets around this limit by acting as a remote display for a browser running on servers operated by Opera. It'd be like RDPing to a PC running Firefox.
Well, yeah, but lets be blunt here, by the fact that you decide to call yourself "macs4all" you're also probably physically incapable of being objective about anything if Apple is involved.
Talk about judging a book by its cover.
Shipping OSX has an exploit that gives anyone root escalation privileges via a single CLI. It is really a joke of an OS, although it is pretty.
The difference between iOS dropping old devices and what Canonical is doing to Ubuntu in the 16.10-18.04 cycle is that PC users can jump ship to another GNU/Linux distribution that keeps i386 support active. With an iPad, on the other hand, you're stuck with whatever iOS distribution Apple signs.
So you're posting with Lynx? How does moderation/meta-moderation work with that, I wonder?
I only read Slashdot at work using Windows, as my time is too valuable to waste at home. Moderation/meta-moderation are probably clickable links in Lynx.
I used Linux/BSD desktops for about 14 years before I gave up and bought a Mac. People laugh about "Just Works", but damned if it isn't true most of the time. "But what about my pet obscure feature X?" I had a few of those that were hard to give up, but once I stopped trying to make my Mac act exactly like KDE or awesome WM and started using their workflows I found myself being way more productive than I ever had been on Linux.
I'm not an Apple fanboy: if Linux or Windows ever got sufficiently better than OS X that I could justify changing ecosystems, I'd totally be open to considering it. Realistically, though, based on the last 20 years of watching their respective user interface development, I don't think that's likely to happen.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
Yup, sure am. I find it odd that somebody would have a problem with that on a site that constantly rails against privacy invasions. Isn't anonymity key to privacy?
Normally, yes. But on Slashdot, Anonymity seems to be mostly used as a Flaming/Trolling/Ad Hominem Attack Tool.
I'm not an Apple fanboy: if Linux or Windows ever got sufficiently better than OS X that I could justify changing ecosystems, I'd totally be open to considering it. Realistically, though, based on the last 20 years of watching their respective user interface development, I don't think that's likely to happen.
So you would agree with my assessment that OS X/macOS has, at this time, the hands-down best desktop UI overall?
OSX definitely has usability in mind. It's the only laptop I've used that is actually usable. Sure it has flaws, but it makes Windows feel like amateur experiments. Linux UIs though, ugh, even the latest versions feel like a mix of a retro style that you know how to use but is clumsy combined with ultra modern that is obtuse and never does what you want; in some ways like Windows 8/10 with its two incompatible UIs operating at the same time.
is this "exploit" invoking the sudo command?
Oh noes! I have root!
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.
That may be, but it didn't appear to be the case here. You're still going by "macs4all" and going level 12 fanboy in your posts.
Where Linux shines is in making old PCs come to life again after having been saddled by Windows.
Back then it was mostly wifi related stuff like allowing new devices to connect. Cisco's wifi controller still has a wifi interface but I've mostly moved on to ssh for remote servers. Using VNC as someone else mentioned is a royal pain in the arse. Basic webadmin tasks is OK to do if you only have to do it once in a while.
One of the reasons I finally turfed my flip phone way back when and got the iPhone was primarily because I liked the idea of not lugging around my laptop. That didn't work out so well for me.
Didn't your mother ever teach you, "if you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all"?
You must be new here.
;-)
Oh, and it wasn't bile. But it may have been another yellow bodily fluid...
Where Linux shines is in making old PCs come to life again after having been saddled by Windows.
That USED to be the case; but I seem to remember people on Slashdot whining a couple of years back that Linux was getting too resource-hungry to run on old hardware.
Oh, and now most Linuces will apparently be dropping support for 32 bit x86 CPUs...
So which is it?
No
I wasn't talking to you, COWARD.
I don't doubt it. I had thought the same thing when I got my iPad. Combined with a bluetooth keyboard, it actually *is* halfway decent. But "halfway" is still the key word, especially something as simple as an SSH client is a revolving door of apps where todays amazing app stops getting updated, and eventually disappears off the app store entirely. So I can get a reasonable amount of work done in a pinch, and it's possible to do basically everything, but you still end up finding it somewhat annoying compared to a regular laptop.
At this time, I prefer the OS X UI to any other desktop UI I've used.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
I can't agree with the bit about rendering pages properly. In my experience, Safari is outstanding at rendering content on small screens and I truly don't remember the last time I had trouble accessing a web page with it.
Yes, it's annoying that other browsers are basically wrappers around WebKit. I wish that were different. But being "stuck" with Safari isn't exactly a burden.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
You assume we all want a full DE. You can find me in Open Box or awesome running a few terminal emulator sessions, and whatever ever else. Let's talk shells, terminal emulators and everything under the hood.
DISCLAIMER 1: The way I prefer to operate a computer is my preference. I do not possess any malice or arrogance against those who prefer other things but in this case I am standing up for myself.
DISCLAIMER 2: I do sometimes like to run Bungie with Tint2, it stays out of the way.
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Couldn't agree more. I used various Linux distros after Windows Vista eventually spelled the death of XP but when Ubuntu went bad, I finally decided to just buy a Mac. Never been happier. It took a little while to get past the inability to configure my WM "just so", but once I got beyond my OCD tendencies in that area, the macOS was perfect. I can't see Linux or Windows being worthy enough to entice me back for many years to come. I should finally start using Numbers, Pages, etc and stop using Open Office (which I retained as my exit strategy, but I don't think I'll be needing one quite frankly).
I've got a soft spot in my heart for E, but it's a fond memory from my past and not in my present (or likely future). OS X encompasses a lot more than just the UI - more like KDE than E - including stuff like reasonably reliable cloud sync; a services architecture that's actually used (click on a date in an email to create a scheduled event in the calendar app of my choosing); Wi-Fi that always comes back up after hibernation; erm, hibernation itself; tight integration between desktop apps and their mobile counterparts; user-friendly backup and restore; tons of commercial apps; etc.
I've gotten several of those to work in Linux through lots of tinkering, but ain't nobody got time for that. Or at least I don't. None of those are hypothetically impossible in Linux but my impression is that the ecosystem doesn't have them today. I'd rather buy a nice desktop OS than invest the time required to make myself happy on another Linux desktop. Don't get me wrong: all that tinkering's been great for my career as I learned way more than I'd ever planned on deep OS internals! It's just that I'm ready to move on to other challenges than futzing around with my desktop config before I can get work done.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
If I had to use Windows at work, I'd probably be spending lots of time on Slashdot too.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
Did you imagine that I'd said otherwise?
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
That may be, but it didn't appear to be the case here. You're still going by "macs4all" and going level 12 fanboy in your posts.
He may want to change that as well. I hear that the new OS is *not* going to run on all Macs. It appears to be a case of "Macs4Some" ;-)