Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.6.8

[Winni]

My rules? Hahaha, right...



What!? That's not what I said at all. I said nothing about number changes, I said point releases

1.0 -> 1.1 is what is considered a point release in the software world
1.1 -> 2.0 is what is considered a major release

Windows 95 -> 98 would be a major release
OS 9 -> OS X would be a major release

Anything less is, well, not a major release regardless of how Apple spins it. I don't know why this is something offensive to all of you, it wasn't an insult. I only brought it up to him because you have less to worry about when it comes to compatibility when you're dealing with point releases, because core components are less likely to change. Just look at what moving from XP to Vista broke, or OS 9 to X

Sure. Windows 2000 to XP was a major release, but when you look at the version numbers, it only was a point release (5.0 to 5.1). Same happened with Vista and 7 - 6.0 to 6.1.

And when you look at most open source projects, your numbering schemes don't work at all anymore. Most open source projects still have not reached version 1.0, even when they've been around in stable releases for years.

There are no general rules for version numbers, everybody has their own numbering scheme and in Apple land, every new 10.x release is a major release and 10.x.y releases are point releases.

 

[Skorpion24]

Well nice, iTunes wont start and on safari the flash player crash everytime

 

[PatrickCocoa]

Oh Noes!

TRIM-Support since 10.6.8 !

Oh no, my hard drive is speaking German!

 

[Samsumac]

Archive install SL and download the combo updater.

Thanks, I did a lion update which works fine ..... They dropped the ball in this...

 

[macsmurf]

If Microsoft sold hard drives, and Microsoft added code to their OS to only support standard (but optional) SATA commands on hard drives sold by Microsoft - the DOJ and the press would be on them immediately.

Apple, however, with its tiny market share, can do whatever it wants - at least until Apple's customers get fed up.

Yep. And we won't.

I do find it quite a bit ironic that I have to binary patch OS X on my Apple Macbook whereas my Hackintosh has been running vanilla for the longest time.

 

[PatrickCocoa]

Clarification requested

Ive used it. Snow Leopard is much much better in terms of speed (ram peformance). Also mission control sucks.. regular expose make use of the whole screen. The UI.. dont get me started!

I've used Lion as well and haven't seen any slowdowns. Could you clarify what "ram performance" is? If you have any Lion/Snow Leopard benchmarks or timings I'd be happy to see them.

Your other comments are not speed related. Lion's UI is somewhat different, if you don't like it stay with Snow Leopard or switch to Windows or Linux.

I don't understand what "regular expose make use of the whole screen" means. I'm planning on moving to Lion but if there's some problem out there I'd like to hear about it.

 

[pimentoLoaf]

Times Reader (NYTimes) doesn't work: it just sits there not loading anything.

UPDATE: Adobe Air just updated, so TR is working fine again.

 

[Eric5h5]

Which makes it somehow not a major release?

It makes it a switch to a different operating system, which goes beyond "major release".

--Eric

 

[Dainin]

Is that for Apple branded SSD drives or for 3rd party ones like Intel or OCZ Vertex?

Nope, Apple only

 

[Lochias]

More update woes

After the 10.6.8 update, Time Machine has stopped working. The backup drive is suddenly seen as Read Only.

 

[ysr]

10.6.8

So long Snow Leopard

 

[ENduro]

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Holly cow I'm getting a kernel panic on startup right after the update... will have to troubleshoot after the class -_-

Me too. 3 times in a row. Booted up in Safe Mode right now. No 1Password either but that may be because of Safe Mode.

MB Unibody 2.26, 8 GB Ram...

 

[jsoto]

I haven't tried it but hopefully this will address couple issues

1)vpn issue. Last upgrade broke vpn. (once you are on vpn, no other internet works except vpn'd stuff. (it used to work before last upgrade).

2)external monitor flickering issue. Whatever happen to this? My external monitor STILL flickers.. wth is going on apple?

Hopefully when I get home, I will try this out(unless someone already tested these).

VPN Issue fixed! Everything seems to work fine with no issues that I can notice.

 

[Kar98]

This will be the last version of OSX period for some.

Yup. I don't need an app store, I don't need a iPhone-ified computer, and since my mini has a Core Duo CPU and is limited to 2GB of RAM, it's a moot point anyway.

 

[Kar98]

I can see a lot of first generation Mac Mini's not going Lion

First (PPC G4) and second (Intel Core) gen.

 

[gb1631]

Installed it on my iMac and MBA, both working fine. Firefox 5; however had a couple of problems and quit on me while watching an Infinity TV program on my MBA, after the OS upgrade. Related? I don't know!

 

[htpw16]

Nope, Apple only

Is this something that will be addressed later, or does Apple only want to support TRIM for their stock SSDs?

 

[Michaelgtrusa]

This will be the last one.

 

[Vertigo50]

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Not mentioned in the release notes, but this got Final Cut X running for me. Downloaded it yesterday and it kept crashing trying to launch. This fixed it. I'm happy.

 

[PCClone]

Yup. I don't need an app store, I don't need a iPhone-ified computer, and since my mini has a Core Duo CPU and is limited to 2GB of RAM, it's a moot point anyway.

So Lion won't run on my Core 2 Duo iMac???

 

[Skorpion24]

I've downloaded and installed the combo version and now looks everything's back working...

 

[WilliamG]

Would someone with a late 2009+ iMac and a MacBook Pro/Air etc tell me if they're able to connect their laptops to their iMac and change the brightness on the iMac? I've lost that ability with 10.6.8...

Thanks.

 

[KnightWRX]

I would say all 4 of them are major releases, but 2000 -> XP isn't really an upgrade path, they're two parallel products. One for home, and one for enterprise

Both are of the NT family of operating systems. XP was as much an enterprise ready OS as 2000 was.

there are plenty of other development trees you can look at

There is no logic to software versioning. It is highly dependant on the group doing the actual releasing. Look at Linux, it's been at "version 2.0" for years. Heck, just the 2.6 releases have seen many complete architecture changes. And if you take a peek at Linux 3.0, it's the same thing as 2.6.39, it's just the version number that's changed.

Let it go, you are just wrong. Apple doesn't label OS X versions according to your rules, they follow their own rules. And their own rules are 10.Major.Minor

 

[doug in albq]

going from 10.6.6 to 10.6.7 on my 2010 i5 15 inch MBP made HD and even some 480 px video from Netflix, Hulu and Youtube choppy on my attached external display. This was not a flash issue and going back to 10.6.6 fixed the issue.

I wonder if 10.6.8 fixed this issue....most likely not.

Not sure if I will ever update this machine past 10.6.6 now....

EDIT: 10.6.8 is clean and tight. works great on my MBP and the older mini. Hulu and Netflix and Youtube work perfect with no issues!! i think 10.6.7 was the dud, I am glad Apple produced a very tight final update for Snow Leopard

 

[tinman0]

Could not have said it better myself.

I could. Looking forward to Lion in July, although I'll probably install in September.