Apple Seeds Mac OS X 10.6.4 Build 10F46 to Developers

[MorphingDragon]

Then enlighten me on why can't they help fix it. Samba is open source, OS X is almost entirely built upon both original and custom open source projects. What stops them from finding out the problem before its shipped and fixing it before hand (like apparently they're doing on 10.6.4)?

Due to the nature of the License attached to Samba, its not possible to have your own off the mainline fixes.

 

[fhall1]

10.6.3 introduced a major bug in the 24" imac's graphic driver causing the driver to crash at random moments leaving the screen in an all white or all black state. a reboot is required to restore the system. Hope they release this update soon as it will probably fix this issue.

With which graphics adapter? I haven't had any graphics driver crashing problems with my 24" iMac on 10.6.3

 

[Menge]

Due to the nature of the License attached to Samba, its not possible to have your own off the mainline fixes.

AFAIK GPL doesn't stop you from shipping custom code. I the GPL basically requires you to share your source code for the modifications under GPL - which Apple has done before with various other projects and was what I was suggesting from the start.

But meh. 10.6.4 fixes it and I hadn't realized how far behind OS X was on the Samba version. So it's an useless argument. Apple's likely doing "nothing".

 

[Mighuel]

- Better native NTFS read/write support (I know it's allready in SL, but it's quite slow..).

I've used a couple of NTFS drives on SL and haven't been able to write to them. Do I have to enable it from somewhere?

 

[MorphingDragon]

AFAIK GPL doesn't stop you from shipping custom code. I the GPL basically requires you to share your source code for the modifications under GPL - which Apple has done before with various other projects and was what I was suggesting from the start.

But meh. 10.6.4 fixes it and I hadn't realized how far behind OS X was on the Samba version. So it's an useless argument. Apple's likely doing "nothing".

GPL infects all of the source code.

 

[tmuller]

I just find it cute that apple bragged about how small snow leopard was on the install (something like 4GB) but their updates are each 500+ MB each.

They are cumulative, so they get bigger each release. You can install the combo from 10.6.0 -> 10.6.3 without having to apply 10.6.1 and 10.6.2 since 10.6.3 has all the prior patches in it.

 

[macintoshtoffy]

I agree. OS X is a good OS. But indeed it just needs those small changes like:
- cut 'n paste functionality (I doubt Apple will ever add this).
- Quicktime hardware acceleration for more formats (h264, mkv).
- Implement the TRIM command for SSD's.
- Update OpenGL and SMB drivers.
- Better native NTFS read/write support (I know it's allready in SL, but it's quite slow..).

And to take full advantage of the posibilities SL has to offer, software developers should make better use of openCL, Grand-Central Dispatch, etc.

Apple could easily licence NTFS and SMB from Microsoft if they wanted; I find it funny that Apple charges a fortune for their hardware and yet when it comes to licensing technology that would make support smoother they're more than happy to skimp.

It'll be interesting to see, therefore, what WWDC has in store and whether it is the death nail in Mac OS X on the desktop's coffin given that all evidence shows Apple doesn't give a crap about the desktop given all the development focus being on i-devices at the expense of the desktop.

 

[JackieTreehorn]

How about fixing the Snow Leopard memory leak and the more than sluggish Aperture 3.0 performance on quadcore machines?

 

[star-affinity]

This hasn't happened on my MBP yet - but have you tried turning the brightness back up? Just in case? I mention it because if I turn the brightness riiiight down on my MBP I can still very very faintly see the video on the screen.

Yup, it's not that.
You think I'd take the step to log in remotely via SSH without trying to increase the brightness first?

 

[MorphingDragon]

Apple could easily licence NTF and SMB from Microsoft if they wanted; I find it funny that Apple charges a fortune for their hardware and yet when it comes to licensing technology that would make support smoother they're more than happy to skimp.

It'll be interesting to see, therefore, what WWDC has in store and whether it is the death nail in Mac OS X on the desktop's coffin given that all evidence shows Apple doesn't give a crap about the desktop given all the development focus being on i-devices at the expense of the desktop.

Like I've always said.

XCode on iPad, or they port the Simulators to Windows/Linux.

But I think Apple likes money far too much to kill off the Mac line. Come back again when Apple's mac line starts faulting again.

I agree. OS X is a good OS. But indeed it just needs those small changes like:
- cut 'n paste functionality (I doubt Apple will ever add this).

Cut and pasting files is dangerous in a Unix environment. Fat chance of getting it back if something goes wrong.

- Implement the TRIM command for SSD's.

For the same reasons above I think TRIM needs to be seriously looked at and tested before implementing on any Unix platform.