Apple Releases Leopard 9A466 (WWDC Build) to ADC Members

rocklobzter31 said:
Can someone explain how you exactly can do this?

I logged in with my itunes account and it let me in.

What do i do next??
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MacRumors said:
Apple is finally seeding the WWDC version of Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) to online ADC members (Select or Premier).
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Are you a Select/Premier member? If not, you're out of luck (Select is $500/year, Premier is something like $3500/year). If you are, go to "Downloads" and it'll pop up. Just click on the link for the DMG file. Then use Disk Utility to burn it to a DL DVD. It'll probably be on a torrent someplace by tomorrow, if you want to go the illegal way. ;)
 
Finally! It's taken them long enough to stick that up there. Seriously, WWDC was a long time ago and its only just up. Anyway I'm downloading it now. Too bad that I missed WWDC this year. Stuck in Australia.

It's pretty. But thats about it. There isnt that much really new and useful features, altho things like quick look will work its way into what I do everyday.

Anyways hopefully we can expect more bug fixes and the like in the comming weeks/months.
 
MajorTom said:
I have a question for anyone using the Leopard beta:

Apple has stated during Tiger that NetInfo is a legacy technology that they intend to move away from... and from a screenshot of the utilities folder in Leopard i see that NetInfo Manager application is no longer included... it appears to have been replaced with the Directory & Directory Utility applications.

So my questions are:

1. Where can the Root user be enabled in the GUI ? It used to be enabled via NetInfo, can it be done from one of these Directory applications ?

2. I like to move my home folder to a second internal HD. NetInfo was the easiest way for me to do this using the GUI... how can this be done in Leopard ? again can it be done using one of the Directory applications ?

3. A more general question to anyone who knows a bit about the subject - What if any new features have been added to Networking and Directory like applications to make Leopard more compatible with windows based network environments ?

Thanks :)
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1) The only way i have found to enable root is to boot from the install cd and use the change password utility to change the password of root.

2) There is no equivalent of NetInfo Manager in Leopard. You will have to figure out an alternate way of doing this. Perhaps a symlink?

3) I have noticed that there is exchange support in mail and ical. There is also improved support for windows file sharing and printer sharing (for one thing it is implemented seamlessly into the sharing preferences, as opposed to being "Windows File Sharing"
 
iPhone 10.4 or 10.5 based?

iPhone 10.4 or 10.5 based? Will the core of it be open-sourced, as it is a stripped down version?

anyone heard?
 
I don't understand why people need to enable root.
To do some `root' stuff, you don't need to `su root',
all you have to do is to include yourself in the sudoers
(or set yourself as an administrator in System Preferences).
Then just typing sudo rm -rf / and giving YOUR password
deletes everything !

Could you give me some example when it's necessary to set the password to root ?
 
Iroganai said:
I don't understand why people need to enable root.
To do some `root' stuff, you don't need to `su root',
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Right, and if you are an sudoer you can simply use sudo sh, no need to give the account a password.

As a general note, it would be wise to take any statements seen on forums about features missing from or present in Leopard with a grain of salt. Misunderstandings tend to flow freely as 'fact', and features present today may or may not be exactly the same as what appears in the final shipping product. This is one of the reasons why prerelease software is often confidential, it can give potential buyers the wrong impression.
 
Iroganai said:
Could you give me some example when it's necessary to set the password to root ?
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Well, if you want to login to Mac OS X as root, for example. There's nothing like installing hoards of software without typing your password a million times. (LaCie, for example, has a ghetto driver PKG that doesn't request authentication before installing the driver. I could have installed it through the terminal. But it was easier to log in as root.)

I think it's a personal preference. Some just don't like sudo.
 
Genghis Khan said:
hmmm...i was going to torrent it, but i didn't want to make my desktop any less secure and my laptop would run out of battery way to fast...remember guys it's 6GB of torrenting you're looking at....LOOOONNNNG TIIIIIMMMME
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It's also unstable. Very unstable. iChat crashes a lot, sleep didn't work, and dashboard crashed about half the time I pulled it up. Also OpenGL performance is half that of 10.4.

I did an archive and install. Trying an erase and install to see if that's better.

Edit: Erase and install is a lot better. Things I just noticed. System preferences isn't in the dock on default. Spaces defaults to a Mac OS blue desktop background when using the expose-style F8 button. Stacks are either the curved view or the grid view based on how many items are in the stack, no way to force one or the other. Sleep does work, just not as quickly as Tiger. Battery life seems around the same. 4:10 with lcd dimmed to the lowest and just letting the computer sit doing nothing(Macbook CD). OpenGL seems to have gotten a huge boost. Same macbook ran a 266 in an xBench OpenGl test. I don't think that's right and it might have something to do with not running a full test.
 
so hows it performing???? nice and stable or still a bit buggy ???

EDIT:aah i see the guy above kinda answered that 4 me
 
Can anyone speculate when in October Leopard will be released? I've heard towards the end, so on that I would estimate 29 - 30th (Mon/Tues).
 
I can speculate heh. I think Apple will release Leopard on the second tuesday of Oct. which is the 9th. I have absolutely nothing to back that up with besides the current state of the build (bugs, features that need completion, refinement), the iphone's released which means the company will be able to focus on their new deadline. I believe that Apple gave themselves a large amount of breathing room when they gave the Oct. release month and think that the release should take place in early to mid Oct.
 
ampd said:
I can speculate heh. I think Apple will release Leopard on the second tuesday of Oct. which is the 9th. I have absolutely nothing to back that up with besides the current state of the build (bugs, features that need completion, refinement), the iphone's released which means the company will be able to focus on their new deadline. I believe that Apple gave themselves a large amount of breathing room when they gave the Oct. release month and think that the release should take place in early to mid Oct.
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mmmnnn id say thats a fairly good estimate. anytime before than is a blessing. i surely hope its worth it !!! all i really want is spaces :) great app. oh and the rest of the stuff aswell, thats good too :p
 
Maybe Apple will put Leopard on the new iMacs ... that would be sweet, even if it were a prerelease version. Then when Leopard is released in OCT it would simply be a software update to get the final release version.

Then again, maybe they won't do this... :eek:
 
ImAlwaysRight said:
Maybe Apple will put Leopard on the new iMacs ... that would be sweet, even if it were a prerelease version. Then when Leopard is released in OCT it would simply be a software update to get the final release version.

Then again, maybe they won't do this... :eek:
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Yeh that makes total sense, let's release a developer release of a beta OS on a production line of machines. *smacks forehead*
 
Too bad this isn't available to student developers...Anyone know if student developers will get the final Leopard OS shipped when it's released? I've read on some other forums that we would.
 
ImAlwaysRight said:
Maybe Apple will put Leopard on the new iMacs ... that would be sweet, even if it were a prerelease version. Then when Leopard is released in OCT it would simply be a software update to get the final release version.

Then again, maybe they won't do this... :eek:
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Wow. Just...wow. :rolleyes:
 
Capn_Moho said:
Well, if you want to login to Mac OS X as root, for example. There's nothing like installing hoards of software without typing your password a million times. (LaCie, for example, has a ghetto driver PKG that doesn't request authentication before installing the driver. I could have installed it through the terminal. But it was easier to log in as root.)

I think it's a personal preference. Some just don't like sudo.
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I think logging into the window manager as root is fraught with problems. There are things happening there that aren't immediately obvious and that's not a good thing when you're root. One minor example is littering the file system with root owned .DS_Store files which will bite you later.
 
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