[OSX-Users] Re: Mavericks 10.9.0

[Leslie Carr]

Installed it; on my iMac; can't tell the difference. Can't remember what the excitement was!

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On 8 Oct 2013, at 00:23, "Chris Andrews" <w at lfie.org> wrote:

>>> On 7 Oct 2013, at 14:29, Jules <sysjkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> On 07/10/2013 14:22, Vladimiro Sassone wrote:
>>> On 7 Oct 2013, at 12:08, Jules <sysjkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>>> Am I right in thinking that any future updates to the retail version will also work with this version?
>>>> Provided they don't change it, this *is* the retail version. Down to the byte.
>>> And if they change it? Would then the release install as an "update" on top of this version of the Gold Master?
>> That is totally unknown. Take your chances. It's a very small risk, but it is a finite one.
>> Don't upgrade without first taking a safe complete image of your existing system, just in case you need to do it again.
> 
> The last change I remember to a GM was the 4.2 iOS GM that included a showstopping wifi bug. IIRC, that resulted in a 4.2.1 which devs could patch on top of 4.2, and the public release being 4.2.1. But that was iOS and they could do OS X differently. Potentially a "supplemental update"? I don't recall a change to an OS X GM in all the time I've been beta testing them.
> 
> All that said, it's been several days since the GM seed and the Mac blogs aren't fired up with gossip about a big Mavericks bug, so fingers crossed...
> 
> Chris