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Apple’s next-gen OS X 10.9 will be named ‘Lynx’, source says

Saturday, November 17, 2012 · 12:38 pm · 86 Comments

“The name for Apple’s next generation operating system – Mac OS X 10.9 – will be called LYNX,” AppleScoop reports.

“This report comes from a reliable source who claims to have talked to someone from inside the walls of Apple,” AppleScoop reports.

Read more in the full article here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Dan" for the heads up.]

Categories: Rumor

Tags: Lynx, mac, Mac OS X, Macintosh, OS X, OS X 10.9 Lynx, OS X10.9

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iMaki

Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 12:41 pm · Reply

A lynx is like a big house cat! Are we supposed to be impressed?
- thethirdshoe
  
  Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 1:39 pm · Reply
  
  Artistic Licence —
  
  Dr. Peter Venkman: Nimble little lynx, in’t she?
- HTML5 Gordon
  
  Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 2:54 pm · Reply
  
  You have a bobcat in your house?
  - R Dunn
    
    Monday, November 19, 2012 - 1:34 am · Reply
    
    Yes, And candy bars.
- Bandit Bill
  
  Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 3:13 pm · Reply
  
  There is no rule saying the cats have to get bigger and stronger. Perhaps we are going for speed and efficiency.
- praus
  
  Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 3:40 pm · Reply
  
  It’s a very dangerous animal. A Lynx can and probably would kill you given the chance.
  - Weekend
    
    Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 8:49 pm · Reply
    
    Only if it had a gun!
    - spyintheskyuk
      
      Sunday, November 18, 2012 - 5:51 am · Reply
      
      I think it might be worth checking out the different types of Lynx, some are considerably more dangerous than others if that is the criteria you judge it by. Mind you my tabby kitten used to own the next door neigbour’s ex Alsation guard dog so may be a big house cat isn’t such a condemnation after all.
      
      That said one would have thought that they would have built up to Lion or Tiger as the ultimate in the range if only to avid such debates.
      - Weekend
        
        Sunday, November 18, 2012 - 2:59 pm · Reply
        
        Different types of lynx? Four. And unless you corner one you’re in no danger. But any wild animal can be dangerous if you corner it and it has no escape route. I have seen plenty of lynx and some mountain lions. There is a difference. However, it’s the bear that is dangerous. I have a friend who was chased by a bear and luckily got away. He did the only thing he could and climbed a tree. Of course the bear could have climbed the tree but it didn’t chase him up. But it did mull around for an hour at the base of the tree. He waited another three hours before he came down. He never went out without a dog and at least a .44 mag after that.
        
        Ballmer's left nut
        
        Sunday, November 18, 2012 - 4:56 pm · Reply
        
        Loved your story about your friend and the bear.
        
        Does he have recurrent nightmares about his wife giving him a bear hug now?
- ken1w
  
  Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 5:24 pm · Reply
  
  Should go with “Sea Lion” next, as a transition to marine creatures…
- vanfruniken
  
  Sunday, November 18, 2012 - 4:46 pm · Reply
  
  Ouch! If a Lynx is too small a cat, its size will turn out to be below analysts’ expectations.
  Yet another reason for AAPL to tank.
Scoobydoozie

Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 12:43 pm · Reply

Hmmmm…. Wasn’t there an Atari Lynx game system that was doomed? Hope they use a different moniker.
- Cubert
  
  Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 1:08 pm · Reply
  
  What about the Lynx web browser. Wasn’t that the first one ever?
  - HTML5 Gordon
    
    Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 3:56 pm · Reply
    
    Wow, you just brought back memories. Good old text based browsing. When Mosaic came out, I actually initally resisted it and kept using Lynx for quite a while.
  - gcaptain5
    
    Sunday, November 18, 2012 - 5:02 pm · Reply
    
    Lynx is a very old web browser, but not the first. The first was called WorldWideWeb, which was developed by Tim Berners-Lee and ran on the NeXTSTEP operating system.
- mossman
  
  Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 5:38 pm · Reply
  
  I had a generation-1 Lynx. First portable colour game system, with 16-bit graphics (more colours than many PCs at the time could do, even!), networked gaming options, when its competition was the black-and-white Nintendo Gameboy that came out the same year at half the price.
  
  The Lynx was like the Newton and several other Apple products–way ahead of its time, and people weren’t ready for it.
MikeK

Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 12:44 pm · Reply

I like it
AndyS_OSU

Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 12:51 pm · Reply

Lynx? Links? iOS and OSX coming together?
- Nomoremsbs
  
  Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 12:58 pm · Reply
  
  Exactly!
- RP
  
  Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 9:23 pm · Reply
  
  I was thinking the same thing. The inevitable. If so, very clever.
- kentkd34
  
  Sunday, November 18, 2012 - 10:09 am · Reply
  
  As long as they don’t oversimplify OSX to the point that it loses functionality. That is my fear.
  
  I like my iPhone, but the simplification of the menus desired by Apple often presents me with an app screen that makes me answer the question: What do I do next? So I touch here on the screen, there on the screen in order to give me some choices as to where I go next. On apps that I I use every day, its not a problem because I memorize the blank spots on the screen that I use to make the desired choices of actions (menu) pop up, but on less frequently used apps, it is click here, click there, what do I do next. Not the Apple way, speaking as a Mac user since 1988. Hopefully Jonathan Ive will bring back some common sense to the minimalism trend. If the user has to memorize a series of actions to make an app work, we are headed for trouble.
  
  Between OSX and iOS, I have over 100 apps that I use to make a living. Don’t hide my operating tools in order to achieve a minimalist “black screen” look. I am as guilty as anybody in my web designs, BUT I never leave the viewer asking the question: Where do I go next?” and then leave it up to them to try to find the answer by random clicking in the corners, etc, just to make a function menu appear. Some apps I may only use 5 or 6 times a year, in which case the function menus need to be obvious, not “artsy-crafty” in their appearance and organization.
  
  We are heading that way in many iOS apps, and it seems that iOS developers are being encouraged to take it even further.
  
  Just my take. Don’t mess with how I make my living. All change is not good. Good change is good change, bad change is bad change.
  
  And no, I don’t have time to give examples. If you use OSX/iOS as an entertainment delivery device, which seems to be where we are heading, you probably use very few apps, know them well, so have no clue what I am talking about. But if you create content with web sites that have over 100 or more resource files each, you will know what I am talking about. Oversimplification in the organization of those is a disaster waiting to happen. If you don’t understand it, well…….what can I say.
omalansky

Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 12:53 pm · Reply

Saber Tooth would have been better. I can’t take credit for thinking of it. Someone else suggested it last week.
- ajendus
  
  Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 1:04 pm · Reply
  
  Somehow I think naming your OS after an extinct species isn’t all that marketable or wise.
  - Sabertooth rules, lynx drools
    
    Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 7:04 pm · Reply
    
    It’s not about extinction, it’s about power. Look at the Nashville Predators logo. A lynx is what a Sabertooth uses to wipe the remaining bits of Zube from its bunghole after it takes a giant Microsoft…
    - Sabertooth rules, lynx drools
      
      Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 8:17 pm · Reply
      
      Ahh…Microsoft! I meant Zune not Zube… (That’s what I get for posting from a Surface tablet in a Microsoft store….it was just so quiet and empty in here I assumed I could think better but it’s more like Eliot’s Wasteland: ““A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
      And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
      And the dry stone no sound of water…
      There is shadow…
      I will show you fear in a handful of dust.” )
botvinnik

Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 1:03 pm · Reply

lynX
- Cubert
  
  Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 1:08 pm · Reply
  
  LynX. In homage to NeXT and Steve.
  - botvinnik
    
    Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 9:16 pm · Reply
    
    yeah, cap L is better.
wzinc

Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 1:11 pm · Reply

What about Liger? It’s basically my favorite animal.
- disposableidentity
  
  Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 2:35 pm · Reply
  
  I love liger, but half lion / half tiger is more of a Microsoft thing.
  - Mikey
    
    Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 6:05 pm · Reply
    
    Microsoft makes me think of half vomit/half poo.
    - macaholic
      
      Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 7:24 pm · Reply
      
      +1
A View From the Other Side

Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 1:11 pm · Reply

Can we not have at least a year before a new OS….
- JB Tipton
  
  Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 1:20 pm · Reply
  
  Nope. The Apple planned obsolecense beast must be fed with your $. The Mac you buy today will be EOLed in two years.
  - gypsy
    
    Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 3:35 pm · Reply
    
    Oh, I don’t know about EOLed in 2 years, I still have functioning 8500, 9650, an early 2005 G5 duaile AND an SE30
  - Rorschach
    
    Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 8:49 pm · Reply
    
    Thanks, but my ’03 PowerBook is working just fine, and there’s an Anthracite and silver Mac tower, about a ’99 model, IIRC, sitting under a desk at work, still in service. Hardly obsolete. That word applies to the twenty or so Wintel PC’s that went in the skip earlier this year. Little more than landfill.
  - hah
    
    Monday, November 19, 2012 - 12:30 pm · Reply
    
    I’m sitting here in front of my eMac laughing at JB Tipton.
    
    And since when have new releases of OS X EOL’d 2 year old Macs, anyway? Mountain Lion supports models from as far back as 2007, or 2006 if you’re comfortable with a bit of hacking.
- RP
  
  Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 9:25 pm · Reply
  
  Yes, lets not innovate because it upsets some people.
  - kingmel
    
    Sunday, November 18, 2012 - 12:31 am · Reply
    
    JB Tipton and AVFTOS undoubtedly prefer somewhat longer OS development cycles, such as Microsoft’s decade-long fling with Windows XP.
    
    Look, JB. You can either accept the fact that Apple does not do the “status quo” thing like Microsoft, or you can move on. Besides, you don’t have to upgrade your OS.
    
    An Apple product will typically serve its function well beyond two years, if treated right, and will also tend to get better with age, rather than worse. I don’t know of many XP machines that went through Vista and 7, much less 8. But my 2007 Intel iMac started with OS X 10.5 five years ago and has gone through every upgrade since without a hitch. It is currently at 10.8.2 and runs flawlessly. I am a fan of Apple products for a reason.
- Dietrich
  
  Sunday, November 18, 2012 - 1:18 am · Reply
  
  Apple does smallish yearly updates to slowly adapt people to change so they don’t have a windows 8 moment
janekg

Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 1:23 pm · Reply

I like ‘Puddy Cat’!
- Jeffrey D. Kern
  
  Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 1:31 pm · Reply
  
  I suggest OS X 10.9 Domestic Short Hair or OS X 10.9 Tabby.
  - Clasqm
    
    Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 5:05 pm · Reply
    
    Considering where all the hard drives seem to come from, as evidenced by last year’s shortage, how about OSX 10.9 Siamese?
- Now, Now...
  
  Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 7:43 pm · Reply
  
  And Apple can ditch the blue bird of Twitter, and create their own service called ‘Tweety’, represented by a yellow bird with big orange feet… “I tawt I taw a puddy cat!”
  
  “I deed! I deed taw a puddy cat!”
- Sylvester
  
  Sunday, November 18, 2012 - 2:08 pm · Reply
  
  I tink I taw a PUDDY TAT
  
  I DID, I DID TAW A PUDDY TAT!!!
Ballmer's left nut

Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 1:48 pm · Reply

They should charge 99¢ for it. That ought to put the fear of God in Microsoft. MS will be forced to charge $1.99 for the next iteration of Windows just to stay competitive.
hannahjs

Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 1:52 pm · Reply

I’d have preferred MinX.
- Ballmer's left nut
  
  Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 2:03 pm · Reply
  
  Ooooh you minOSX….
2ndmate

Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 2:20 pm · Reply

I could believe this RUMOR but only if Apple ditched icons, fancy fonts and other such geegaws, swapped out all native apps for web apps and went total CLI. Back to the future.
LateRegistrant

Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 2:32 pm · Reply

I’m looking forward to spending a day on the Lynx.
- macaholic
  
  Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 7:25 pm · Reply
  
  rather spend my day on a minx!
Ghoti

Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 2:57 pm · Reply

If Microsoft named their OS releases after animals, they’d most likely go with fish (shrimp, mackerel, Narwhal*) or extinct species (Windows Dodo has a nice ring to it!)

* I know, Narwhal is a mammal, but this is Microsoft we are talking about.
- Kristian
  
  Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 3:52 pm · Reply
  
  They had the Longhorn. You know things that big cats eat.
  - LLIBSETAG
    
    Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 10:56 pm · Reply
    
    MS Longhorn?
    Yeah, right, in your dreams BaldyBot.
- Ditchdoc68
  
  Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 3:52 pm · Reply
  
  I think ‘Sucker’ we be appropriate. You’d have to be one to use Windows.
- Weekend
  
  Sunday, November 18, 2012 - 10:05 pm · Reply
  
  More likely skunk.
Mac Plus

Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 4:00 pm · Reply

“Windows – Doh!” or “Windows Ain’t”. Both work nicely for me.
Apple is Always Right

Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 4:09 pm · Reply

Lion = King of the cats. OK.
Lynx = Evolution where? maybe a Super Lynx.
What’s next ‘Hello Kitty’? JOOOOOOOBS
Black Lion, White Lion, Asian Lion, Cave Lion, African Lion, American Lion… Angry Lion.
wisconsineaglesfan

Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 4:28 pm · Reply

Mac OS 10.9 “Thundercat” Hooooo!
- LLIBSETAG
  
  Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 10:59 pm · Reply
  
  YES!
- Scion
  
  Sunday, November 18, 2012 - 5:01 am · Reply
  
  100 Thundercats HO!
Clasqm

Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 5:01 pm · Reply

Well, it’s true that we have run out of big cats. But if Applle is moving into the smaller species, OSX has a long future ahead of it: caracal, serval, jaguarundi, ocelot …

Or how about this: since they tried so hard to drop the numbering scheme from the iPad, maybe they will also get rid of the kitty names?

In our next exciting episode: what will Ubuntu do after Zerious Zebra?
coffeelover

Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 5:06 pm · Reply

can somebody explain to me what microsoft actually does ? Maybe a pie chart is needed!
Eric

Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 5:16 pm · Reply

Here’s hoping that Lynx is more like Tiger … my favorite OS.

Less is more …..!!!!!!