“The stability and performance of Time Machine, Apple’s easy-to-use backup software included with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, remains one of the final focus areas for testers evaluating the company’s impending 10.5.2 operating system update,” Slash Lane reports for AppleInsider.
“Following up on build Mac OS X 10.5.2 build 9C27, which was released privately to developers last Thursday, Apple on Monday evening issued yet another build labeled 9C30,” Lane reports.
“Like the two builds that preceded it, build 9C30 is said to contain no known issues. According to those familiar with the distribution, it also tacks on three more fixes to an already exhaustive list stretching some 135 items long,” Lane reports.
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Whoo Hoooo #1! I knew my day would come!
But is it snappy??
Wonder if 10.5.2 and Time Capsule will be siamese releases?
Snapy? I’d settle for it making samba shares visible and accessible in XP machines..
Let’s hope they’ve been able to get “Back To My Mac” to work..
The feature is pretty much useless right now.
My 1TB Time Capsule is on order with Apple. They state that it will ship by February 29th and delivered by March 6th. That is the time I expect the 10.5.2 update to be released.
And I’m hoping it’ll fix whatever is screwing the recognition of network proxies on my work iMac. I have to use Camino because Safari crashes on launch (didn’t happen under Tiger). Likewise with Software Update.
And good to see that Stacks and the transparent menu bar will now be options only.
I like Leopard, but I don’t think it will be really ready until 5.2 is released.
I can wait, as long as Apple gets it RIGHT!
I hope they fix the bugs in Automator that currently prevent the passage of string variables while running the rename finder items script. It amazes me that they broke that with 10.5 since so many folks use this feature in everyday workflows; at least in the digital media arena.
MW: “idea” as in, “Any idea how they missed this bug in QA?!”
As long as they take the dock back to something that is useful, rather than eye candy, I’ll be happy.
I am so sick of the multiple clicks, rather than a single right click I used to be able to do.
As has already been mentioned, all that matters is that i increases the snappy level. Snappiness is a very underrated quality.
Dag blasted glossy screens! Argh!
But where is my AppleTV update?
I told you 10.5 was a Beta…
Apple’s first set of patches (10.5.1) were very limited and the 10.5.2 update grows in size like Microsoft bloatware. If it gets much bigger they might as well hand it out on DVDs at Apple Stores like back in the day
I can’t figure out what you mean by “Whither 10.5.2?” “Whither” means “where is 10.5.2 going?” “Whence 10.5.2?” would mean “where is 10.5.2 coming from?”
(It’s good to know whence we are coming, whither we are going, and where we are.)
I think you meant “Where oh where is 10.5.2?”
“I told you 10.5 was a Beta…”
You’re so smart!
Sheesh… it’s taking him long enough. I only come here to read his witty retorts these days. It’s about all the fanboism I can deal with…
apple only lack one thing
DEVELOPERS , DEVELOPERS , DEVELOPERS !!!
repeat ad nauseum
To The Impossible Dream
I remember with my TRS-80, Tandy would send out letters telling customers about patches. We had to use the patch command and type in a bunch of numbers. It was the only practical way to do it in those days before the Internet and when 90K floppy disks were the latest technological marvel.
Nowadays, no one sends out patches that way. If they change three bytes in a 5 MB file, they recompile the whole thing, and the update replaces the entire file on your computer. That means that the size of the update doesn’t really give you much information. At best you get a rough idea of how many files they had to change, not how many bytes. It’s possible that 500MB update might contain a net 50MB of changes.
Knowing the size of the update doesn’t really tell you anything other than how long it will take you to download it.
To flappo:
Apple doesn’t lack good developers. What they have are good testers. To get the high-quality results we all expect, they have to do rigorous testing, and that is what takes time.
I sure hope it fixes the stability of Microsoft Orfice. I have to use it for work so I cannot consider options. Word and Excel crash every now and then. frustrating.
Back to Mac doesn’t work either so I upgraded my Timbuktu -leopard version because I couldn’t wait.
I’m not bitching though….It could be a WHOLE lot worse. I could be forced to use a PC for work but because of the nature of my work, the IT people tolerate me and let me use Macs. In fact the number of Macs here are growing steadily (almost 1/3 of the institute containing 900 people) but yet…get this….Macs are still not officially supported.
‘Whither’ means ‘where is it going?’
So the headline would mean, ‘where is 10.5.2 going?’
Surely, we know where it’s going – we just don’t know when.
How long until Apple patches that pesky Skynet bug that keeps sending bots out to kill me?
All you folks using Leopard on your single Macs don’t fully understand the pain of those of us trying to implement Leopard Server. Talk about software that was released in beta form!
10.5.2 can’t come soon enough for me. Let’s hope it actually allows me to log into Leoparrd Server without randomly deciding if it likes my user name and password today. (It really does that in its present form).
Just to add to Derek from Lindfeld:
We know whence 10.5.2 is coming (from Apple) and we know whither it’s going (to us) and we know where it is NOT: on our Macs.
The real question is: When 10.5.2?