[OSX-Users] Re: Mavericks 10.9.0

[Jules]

On 08/10/2013 09:50, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
> Hmm. Perl, PHP & Python were still installed, but yes, git had gone.
>
> And Jules, all I see in the 
> https://help.apple.com/osx-mavericks/whats-new-from-lion page is 
> "Coming Soon". Heh.
Okay, you'll have to wait for them to do the retail release before they 
publish that page.
However, there is
     http://www.apple.com/osx/preview/
which tells you basically what you're looking for.

Jules.

>
> On 08/10/2013 07:13, Chris Andrews wrote:
>> In the install, you also lose the CLI dev tools if you had them 
>> installed. Easy way to get them back, without installing XCode like 
>> in previous releases - type "gcc" into a Terminal and you get a popup 
>> box asking if you want the whole of XCode or just the CLI bits.
>>
>> Also, custom pf.conf and pf anchors get wiped. Had to go to a backup 
>> to get mine back and reactivate them.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>> On 8 Oct 2013, at 01:03, Christopher Gutteridge 
>>> <cjg at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> I've upgraded my laptop and it's pretty much meh. No major issues 
>>> but basically don't bother. Nothing worth going out on a limb for 
>>> that I can tell.
>>>
>>> Oh, and it needed java reinstalling which meant I had several 
>>> minutes work before I could play Minecraft.
>>>
>>>> On 08/10/2013 00:24, Leslie Carr wrote:
>>>> Installed it; on my iMac; can't tell the difference. Can't remember 
>>>> what the excitement was!
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>
>>>> 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
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>>>
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>>>
>


Jules

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