10.6 Referenced in iPhone SDK Installer

[Macminiintel]

Maybe with 10.6 they're trying to reduce the development cycle back to shorter like it used to be. It's wise with a complicated piece of software to do regular releases. Also there has been some discontent with 10.5, more so than past releases, so maybe they just want to put it behind them.

As for code names, Microsoft has stopped using code names and just uses the numbers by themselves now, e.g. Windows 7. Maybe Apple will not come up with a replacement for the cat names, but rather just drop code names altogether.

There are still 3 names to use, as Apple have trademarked them, no one knows which order though. There is still Cougar, Lion & Lynx

 

[Macminiintel]

This may mean Mac OS 10.6 will be demoed

This might mean developers, might get a preview copy of Mac OS X 10.6. Who will know. We only have, 7 days, 10 hours, 13 min & 2 seconds to find out

 

[coolfactor]

I figured this would be of interest because from what I recall, this is the first mention of 10.6 in a publicly available product. Everyone is talking 3G but nothing about 10.6. Here's hoping even a minor mention surfaces at WWDC in the coming weeks.

Recent WebKit nightlies have had a new 10.6 reference (alias to 10.5 files) for at least a week now.

 

[coolfactor]

This might mean developers, might get a preview copy of Mac OS X 10.6. Who will know. We only have, 7 days, 10 hours, 13 min & 2 seconds to find out

Nope, won't happen. 10.6 will be demoed at next year's WWDC. The OS X platform is being stretched out with the relatively new member of the family, iPhone.

 

[Sipheren]

*sigh*

"Mac OS X" is a product name, not a version number. To distinguish the newer generation OS, they called it "Mac OS X" instead of "Mac OS", and continued the numbering from 10.0 onwards, just as they renamed "System" to "Mac OS" and kept the versions going from 7.6 upwards. It's just that the X is pronounced "ten". That's also why the server product is "Mac OS X Server", not "Mac OS Server X".

Mac OS X 10.5.3 means "v10.5.3" of the "Mac OS X" product. There is no such thing as "Mac OS 10.5.3" or "Mac OS X.5.3", nor does "Mac OS 10.5.3 Server" or "Mac OS X.5.3 Server" make any sense. It's "Mac OS X Server 10.5.3".

It annoys me when people pronounce it "Mac Oh Ess Ex", but as incorrect as that is, it does help distinguish the product name from the version number. If you prefer, mentally insert the word "Client" between the "X" and the version number (just don't actually type it or people will make fun of you).

As far as changing the first number in the version from 10 to 11, the correct labelling based on the current naming system would be Mac OS X 11.0. ie: version 11.0 of the "Mac OS X" product, just as there is "Rainbow Six 3" and "Connect360 3.35" (which doesn't mean that they can't go 10.9.11 or 10.85.43 or anything else if they wanted to).

This guy is on the money, anyone who thinks differently is not thinking straight.

Mac OS X is just a brand name, the version is 10.5 or what ever.
You don't go saying I have Mac OS 10 10.5.3 do you? its OS X 10.5.

So there will be OS X 11, OS X 12 and so on until they move away from UNIX.

 

[MBX]

What if, Micrsoft, Apple and Linux unite their Os'es and merge into one? Wouldn't that be really stupid?

 

[Emulsion]

The whole making up funny names for the next release died years ago.

 

[TwinCities Dan]

Who Cares?

Call it OS "X"...
Call it OS 10...

Who cares? It's pretty interchangeable as people have pointed out previously. Mac Users will argue 'til they're blue in the face for both sides but the fact remains, both are correct. Transitive Property: 10=X therefor X=10

"Can't we all just get along?"

!

 

[Bubba Satori]

No, A colon.

Love that joke.

 

[djjfree]

Did anyone stop to think that the version of OS X that runs on the 3G iPhone could be internally referred to as 10.6?

Anyhow, as far as the last release of OS X (before they go to OS 11 or OS XI or whatever,) should be called OS X Cheeta. That is a fast sounding OS.

 

[JoaoPinheiro]

10.0 was Cheetah
10.1 was Puma
10.2 was Jaguar
10.3 was Panther
10.4 was Tiger
10.5 is Leopard

Lion, Lynx, and Cougar haven't been used... And I thought I read somewhere that Cougar and Lynx are already trademarked by Apple.

And please don't forget Ocelot <3