“Less than two weeks after releasing Mac OS X 10.3.6, Apple is already circulating builds of a successive update to its Panther OS,” Kasper Jade reports for AppleInsider. “Apple Computer late last week began internally distributing the first builds of Mac OS X 10.3.7 Update, the next maintenance release for the company’s Mac OS X 10.3 ‘Panther’ operating system.”
“According to the usual suspects, the first pre-release builds of Mac OS X 10.3.7 belong to the ‘7S20x’ milestone and arrive in the form of a 15MB Mac OS X image. The software requires approximately 50MB for installation,” Jade reports. “While details surrounding these very early builds are scant, sources say Mac OS X 10.3.7 will deliver enhancements to FireWire Audio, OpenGL, CoreGraphics, Multicast DNS, mLAN Audio, CoreFoundation, and AppKit.”
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Damn thats early.
No resting on laurels in Cupertino!
One thing I’ve noticed, when Apple releases an Update, no one seems to shudder in dread, sigh loudly and resign oneself to another long, painful upgrade process, or panic. I actually look forward to updates from Apple. Rare though they usually may be, but I actually think they’re ‘fun’ (for lack of a better word at the moment).
Hey Dak, I know exactly what you mean! My boss bought his Toshiba laptop into work so he could hook it up to our 2MB line and download SP2 – we had to leave it on overnight and it crashed halfway through. He gave up in the end…
Today I downloaded & installed the 10.3.6 Combo updater for OS X Server and it was all done in less than 1 hour.
I sure wish they’d fix the AFP auto-mount problems. I still have to log out and back in to get the remote users to show up. I thought the last update was going to fix that. O’ well.
where will it all end?
i hope they fix the Safari problem….. i hate clicking enter twice!!!
Sweet, with all these updates being released, we won’t need Tiger.
Moo.
Here’s the terminology;
Apple: Update
Micros**t: Vunerability Patch/Virus Fix/’Service Pack'(whatever the frell THAT is)/etc etc
Whatever, it sounds bad because it is bad.
As Mr DarkJedi said on Nightly.net:
I only use IE when I have to, it is more insecure than a stadium full of adolescent goths, and anyone who uses it as their browser of choice deserves all of the adware, spyware, and viruses that they get.
Oh, and mastercylinder:
Yes we will!
I hope this update is better than the last one. Ever since I updated to 10.3.6, I have had problems playing games like Diablo and Warcraft in full screen mode. The video was choppy, as if I had other apps running concurrently (which I did not). I can’t say that the update was the cause of the problem but the timing is very suspicious.
Just like the later 10.2x updates, Apple is testing changes and parts of it’s upcoming release within the current OS via updates. That’s what a lot of this looks like.
Uhhh that last upgrade fscking sucked man.. that’s what this is.. a FIX for the last upgrade..
so many people were devastated by that thing.. I had to use Pacifist just to use the upgrade.. my pkg files were all fscked..
and my start up time is doubled by that upgrade!!
then again.. there are always those people who have no performance issues..
this is definitely an “Ooops.. here you go..hope this works” fix.. they didn’t wanna call it 10.3.6.1 or it would be too obvious that they fsucked up
Another update? The paints still wet on the last one.
So, do Apple externally beta test these updates (excluding developers) with a pool of users? If they dont, they should.
Since updating to 10.3.6, my copy of Unreal Tournament 2004 Demo comes up with a blank screen. 🙁
My cursor vanishes when I hover over my back button in safari isince 10.3.6 was installed. Anyone else with the same problem?
still more beef than longtooth moooooooo
10.3.7 …???
hmmmm .. Im still on 10.3.5 !! …..
I was waiting for others to react to 10.3.6 before I took the plunge… Guess, I’ll wait on 7 for the same reason…
Oh…and…
“… hope they fix the Safari problem….. i hate clicking enter twice!!!..”
hey mac…. have you tried hitting “Return” ..instead ?
I have the same problems re the cursor disappearing over the back bottom in Safar, but in 10.3.5. This is mostly, though not exclusively, a problem with the MDN site–it rarely happens on other sites.
My cursor vanishes when I hover over my back button in safari isince 10.3.6 was installed. Anyone else with the same problem?
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The cursor for Safari will dissapear when tyou press a direction arrow. i’m not sure about hovering though.
10.3.6 wasn’t very well tested. I have removed it after a variety of glitches- slow start-up, programs not opening, frequent crashes- and reverted to 10.3.5. The 10.3.7 combo may fix that but I will wait to see what others experience before installing and always have a full backup to hand (which I now install after wiping the disk to avoid all problems).
As a relative newcomer to OS X, one difference from OS 9 that if find very disconcerting is that the Finder window lists (folders, files etc) don’t update until you click out of an application and back into the Finder environment or onto the Desktop. I’m very used to saving work (or ‘saving as’) in an app and keeping half an an eye on the background windows to confirm my progress. Several times I’ve even opened wrong files by clicking back to a Finder window, clicking on a chosen icon only to find the order of files then shifts as the Finder updates itself and the place I’ve clicked becomes a different file! Surely OS 9 had ‘on-the-fly’ Finder updating? Has anyone else experienced this and is there any workaround?
I click the wrong files constantly; but at least I’ve turned dock magnification on tho’ one of my kids likes it.
Frankly speaking, I could find and get to stuff on OS 9 faster than X; consequently my desktop is starting to clutter; and in practice, the Applications and Documents folders have lost their meaning. Naturally, every full-screen game rearranges the icons on my desktop. Glad to know that not all things change.
I agree Less is More. I do still need to go back to my old Mac and collect files every once in a while. Although OS 9 now seems to me to look ‘grey’ and old fashioned, I’m amazed at how straightforward and fast it is to scroll, navigate and locate whatever I’m looking for. Going back to OS 9 reminds me of how responsive the Mac was and how intuitive its GUI used to be! ‘Clunky’ gets a lot of bad press these days, but I wonder if all the ‘King’s New Clothes’ of OS X isn’t really just a mass of ‘pretty-looking’ obstacles impinging on the interaction I want to have with my computer. With OS X, it seems, More is definitely Less! Which is a pity as I REALLY want to like it.
Since installing 10.3.6 I’ve been having problems with my PowerBook not waking from sleep if an external monitor/keyboard/mouse is connected. Under 10.3.5 it would fire into life the moment I plugged the power supply in. Now it sort of half-wakes up and leaves me with blank screens. Not every time, just often enough to be really annoying.
Am I alone in this?
Every incremental update brings in glitches here and there but to some nothing at all: all’s fine.
Why? Because the incremental update only touches files that are obsoleted by the update. It assumes the state of all the rest in absolutely *pristine* and working flawlessly.
Now, the updated system might rely on that pristine condition and be more sensitive to *less than* perfect conditions. This is the reason why many – if not most – of each incremental update disappear if the user installs instead the COMBO version. This last brute force update everything and restore file not touched by the incremental to the state they are supposed to.
So, unless in between you have never installed anything, never modified the system in any possible way (ie, never had done anything requiring the admin password to proceed) you are better off with:
1) Disk Privileges repair on boot volume
2) Install COMBO update
More often than ever your glitches disappear.