Apple on Tuesday evening released to developers a new pre-release build of its Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard operating system, AppleInsider has learned. The new distribution, labeled Mac OS X 10.5 build 9A321, includes only minor changes and enhancements from build 9A303, which was released last month. Instant update: Apparently, this new build features iChat with an answering machine.
Finally some of those top secret features revealed in the form of an answering machine!!
i kid.
There’s a lot of great things that’s going to be in Leopard.
I’m quite interested to see what they are going to do with the UI, there’s a lot of talk about black gloss etc.
Also think there is going to be something really cool in the release that no one knows yet, they need to really bring it out with a bang.
Also think there is going to be something really cool in the release that no one knows yet, they need to really bring it out with a bang.
FTFF!
The idea of an answering machine in iChat seems odd but interesting. Perhaps, we’ll get to those video phones eventually after so many promises from everywhere.
There is a lot of work for the development team to finish. Anything to make the operating system more usable (and it works reasonably well) will be appreciated.
New ways to get at working with the applications and not the computer need to be developed for any machine. It’s been over 20 years since the commercial GUI really started being noticed. Will it be another 20 until we can forget about the operating system?
If you search on some mac forums, you will learn that the disk utility has now the capability to create ZFS filesystem.
Dtrace + ZFS will be enough for me to pay for the upgrade =)
If that’s the case I’ll be a very happy Mac user indeed.
Only Apple could get people to pay for patches…
OSX 10.5 is as much of a patch to OSX 10.4 than Vista is a patch to WinXP SP2. Please…
LOL, except you pay for yours. I don’t.
LOL, except you pay for yours. I don’t.
And if you don’t get those “free” patches you will be the one paying but in a different way.
And if you don’t get those “free” patches you will be the one paying but in a different way.
Not at all. I’ve never been affected by malware. But, then again, I’ve always used a firewall, I don’t run attachments that I receive in email, I don’t surf p0rn and/or visit malicious/warez/hax0rz websites, and I don’t run as admin; hence, my attack surface area is near-zero. So, try again.
Does anyone here know if software RAID 5 is on the horizon for Leopard?
As it stands now, you can only create RAID 0 and 1, and with the way the Mac Pro is built it looks rather difficult to fit in a RAID controller. I’d LOVE to have software RAID 5…
Well, if ZFS is really here, you won’t need RAID 5 anymore, you will have RAID Z (single parity) and RAID Z2 (dual parity) which are like RAID 5 an RAID 6 but better.
Excellent, thanks! One point for you