On Mar 1, 2005, at 5:25 PM, Eric J. Leopold wrote:
Such alarmist rhetoric.
Say good by to drag and drop but don't forget your password in X.
What? OS X abounds with drag-n-drop and passwords are easily (probably too easily) reset.
Wait till you get your first kernal panic:-)
Most users with new hardware *never* experience a kernel panic (system crash). Even my 6 year old, heavily updated B&W only gets 2 a year--and one of those is always from my doing something dumb with an ancient, buggy app (the who and what of which I can never recall until it happens again). And, restarting the machine isn't exactly rocket science (especially since the screen tells you what to do in a plethora of languages).
The bugs in Panther have been known to erase external FireWire drives if the CPU goes to sleep.
I haven't seen a single report of FireWire drives being "erased". There have been a number reports of file system corruption with certain FireWire devices that had buggy firmware, but in every case I know of, when the user took reasonable steps to repair the partition, data was recoverable. The chipsets in many brands of FW enclosures have never had problems with 10.3.x (including, fortunately, the 3 I have).
In any case, bugs in Panther aren't there due to inherent design flaws in the OS. They persist because Apple's end user testing of system updates is too narrow. My impression is that the test group is overwhelmingly Apple and 3rd party developers, not real users. Widespread problems creep in because not enough real users are included in the mix. Apple would have problems with this method regardless of the OS in under development, whether that would have been OS 9, Copeland, Talegent, AUX, and so on.
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