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Apple Releases First Developer Preview of Mac OS X Lion
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Might be gearing up and in-line for this....
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2785-the-end-of-the-it-department
I am having a hard time finding a job lately. I hear more and more that "our I/T is in another state / country" or "we don't have an I/T dept - most everything we need, we can do ourselves".
Plus, if you ever do need anything - there are contractors (this is where the I/T industry is headed and quicker than most realized". Most companies I see now-adays have much smaller I/T depts than what they used to have. many outsource to other companies like Systel, etc.
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This update sounds vastly superior to snow leopard. Resume, versions, airdrop and server functionality all sound like Life savers. So hopeful there's more fun to come.
This update sounds vastly superior to snow leopard. Resume, versions, airdrop and server functionality all sound like Life savers. So hopeful there's more fun to come.
Hm, I read it as a new feature in the OS in case you'd like to make use of it in your application. So that you don't have to design your own sandbox, in case your app interacts with e.g. the Internet. I don't think this is an enforced technology -- it simply didn't seem worded like that to me.
Google are currently using some sort of sandboxing technology also in Google Chrome for Mac, and I think they're already exploiting some OS X API in order to do that. But it could be that OS X Lion has refined support for it, which should make especially web browser designers happy as Apple would be doing more work for them.
ZFS was scrapped due to licensing issues.
If Apple is to update their filesystem it'll probably be to the open FS developed by Oracle, which seems equivalent to ZFS anyway.
But I agree this is one of the issue Apple has to fix.
Server being a part of Lion is great!
Also it seems that there is finally going to be a Year view in iCal - hurrah!
Thank god for that!
I'm sure there's lots more to come but I don't think anything revealed it terribly exciting, especially when compared to recent major developments on the Linux desktop, Gnome 3 shell, Unity and Wayland, Debian Squeeze and Kernel improvements etc...
I'm most excited to see new cloud developments, perhaps that new Data Centre will fit into Lion somehow, integrated into iTunes for streaming media, seems likely.
Really needs a new UI, starting to look dated.
I like pop-up menu when you right click on the dock, dark with transparency, would be nice implemented system wide with option for light theme...
I'm most excited to see new cloud developments, perhaps that new Data Centre will fit into Lion somehow, integrated into iTunes for streaming media, seems likely.
Really needs a new UI, starting to look dated.
I like pop-up menu when you right click on the dock, dark with transparency, would be nice implemented system wide with option for light theme...
Server
I guess this sort of explains the dropping of xserves
still, really cool though - I wonder if there is a per-user limit.
I guess this sort of explains the dropping of xserves
still, really cool though - I wonder if there is a per-user limit.
uhm, it says PART not APART, coming from south africa the word APART...D is something totally different!
"ability to wipe data from your Mac instantaneously". Sounds like a bug. That is a nice spin by Apple marketing.
Love the MacBook Pro update, but not sure how i feel about all this iOS stuff coming to the Mac. I already have an iPhone and an iPad... Don't really want to deal with crappy iOS folders on my full scale computer.
Looks cool, we'll see how iPad-ified it is.
Does anyone know where to get that wallpaper of the mountain?
Does anyone know where to get that wallpaper of the mountain?
Are you serious? Sandboxing is now a critical component of any modern OS. It's strictly used as defense against malware. It keeps applications from doing stuff they aren't meant to, like executing rogue code that can snoop on or tamper with your files.
Half of the exploits with stuff like Acrobat and Flash have to do with documents carrying rogue, executable code hidden inside. Safari is known for being exploitable, although there aren't any examples in the wild yet.
Compatibility
Please could anyone with a dev account comment on compatibility with older systems. Particularly are the older white MacBooks supported, mines a 1.86Ghz C2D with intel GMA950 graphics?
Please could anyone with a dev account comment on compatibility with older systems. Particularly are the older white MacBooks supported, mines a 1.86Ghz C2D with intel GMA950 graphics?
