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Jaguar: Smooth sailing ahead?
By ron carlson, Insanely Great Mac
August 9th 2002
By the time Apple formally releases an updated OS, beta testers -- official and
otherwise -- have usually sussed out most of the bugs and third-party software
conflicts
According to a write on Think Secret, those using beta versions of Apple''s Jaguar OS
X update report only a handful of conflicts/bugs with third-party applications and
utilities. Whereas X.1 wrought a plethora of problems for users and software
developers.
"In the early part of Jaguar''s development, some developers Think Secret spoke with
were concerned that Mac OS X v10.2 would cause similar damage," states Nick dePlume,
chief dishmeister. "In recent days, readers have expressed similar concern.
"Luckily, this hasn''t been the case, by far. Jaguar hasn''t introduced nearly as many
issues with third-party software, and nearly all major apps work flawlessly in the
final gold master of Jaguar."
TS does provide a non-specific list in-progress of applications that are problematic
to some degree or another under Jaguar:
� Apple Remote Desktop;
� MacReporter;
� AthenaIRC;
� Warcraft;
� Cisco VPN app;
� FruitMenu;
� AOL Instant Messenger;
� ASM;
� ProcessWizard;
� StuffIt Menu;
� Theme/Duality; etc.
Mssr. dePlume also discusses a handful of specific bugs and conflicts, but I''ll leave
that for you to discover for yourself -- here
Cutting two ways
Software Piracy is definitely a two-edged blade. Whereas software vendors lose
revenues they might have garnered had everyone using their software paid for the
privilege, they also benefit from "illicit" use of their products. The latter is true
for two reasons: 1.) wider distribution means more people performing a wider variety
of tasks will discover more bugs and 2.) lots of the people pirating are also hackers
that also form the bulk of any OS or applications'' "informal" developer community.
Analysis: In a world where "the update for the update" is often released within days
of the original, it''s nice to hear about a fix that actually fixes more than it
breaks. M$'' service packs are infamous for creating as many (or more) problems --
i.e. security holes and conflicts -- as they are designed to fix. That Apple
apparently will release an update that not only fixes problems and introduces entirely
new functionality without making an even bigger mess of things is quite reassuring.
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