[OSX-Users] Re: Mavericks 10.9.0

[Christopher Gutteridge]

I have to admit, I only really upgraded on a whim. The only feature that 
I'm keen on is the energy saving. If AppNap means I can run Minecraft 
while keeping Thunderbird, Firefox & Terminal open, but cut the power 
use, that's a little win.

I suspect in time the tabbed finder window(s) will be something I use 
heavily, but it'll take a while to get used to.

All it all it's a bit of a damp squid, though.

On 08/10/13 10:00, Jules wrote:
>
> 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
>>>> -- 
>>>> Christopher Gutteridge -- http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cjg
>>>>
>>>> University of Southampton Open Data Service: 
>>>> http://data.southampton.ac.uk/
>>>> You should read the ECS Web Team blog: 
>>>> http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/webteam/
>>>>
>>
>
>
> Jules
>

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