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Mac OS X 10.4: Tiger

A joke that came true...

Being a WWII buff and all... I joked with a friend that Apple was taking on the same naming scheme the Germans used with their tanks by calling the latest OS X "Panther" and then making the G5 case and themes all metallic and tank like.

And now they are going to be using Tiger!

Well... As long as the next OS isn't "King Tiger"! hehe :p

But my guess... It will be Lion.
 
MacBoyX said:
What?

Microsoft does not update yearly.

Windows 95 - 1995
Windows 98 - 1998
Windows XP - 2002
Windows Longhorn - 2006ish

NT3.51 - 1994
NT 4.0 - 1996
Windows 2000 - 1999
Windows XP - 2002
Windows 2003 Server - 2003

How do you figure (and please dont flame me if my dates are exactly right!) that Microsoft does a yearly upgrade? Or that MacOS X upgrades are in line with Microsoft's OS releases
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Actually, Windows XP came out in October 2001. Otherwise, everything else seems correct.
 
vertinox said:
And now they are going to be using Tiger!

Well... As long as the next OS isn't "King Tiger"! hehe :p

But my guess... It will be Lion.
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I agree that lion would be a good name. But still want to see the tiger used because of its beautiful coat. Cheetah should also be used at the time of maximum speed of the X.
 
macridah said:
tiger or whatever, I hope 10.4 will knock everyone off their socks.

When do you think they'll stop go up .1 (10.4, 10.5 ...) upgrades and go to 11 ?

What would be a good theme for OS XI
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I personally hope 10.4 will continue to be a big and awesome upgrade from Apple. I think Apple might have 10.4, 10.5, and then maybe skip to 11. I think a really good theme for the OSXI would be different types of gemstones (ruby, sapphire, topaz, etc.)

PS: First Post! WooHoo! :D
 
macfan76 said:
I personally hope 10.4 will continue to be a big and awesome upgrade from Apple. I think Apple might have 10.4, 10.5, and then maybe skip to 11. I think a really good theme for the OSXI would be different types of gemstones (ruby, sapphire, topaz, etc.)

PS: First Post! WooHoo! :D
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I like the gemstone idea! :D ;)
 
titaniumducky said:
I like the gemstone idea!
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Me too. They could switch over gradually, by starting with a Tiger's Eye:

200px-Tigers-Eye.jpg


Imagine the ads... Mac OS X 10.4, the first operating system that is also a fibrous silicified crocidolite!

OK, so maybe I'm not good in the slogan department, but the box would be really pretty.
 
Sounding Brass

Skiniftz said:
Uh.. iPod users.
12" Powerbook G4 1Ghz
Monitor
...

Car
Steering wheel
Gearstick
Tyres
WTF do people write all this stupid crap in their signature? Do I really care what exact model of computer you own?
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How else can we indicate our status? For example, you have a 12" PowerBook, I have a 12" iBook, therefore I tug my forelock in acknowledgement of your supremacy. On the other hand, the fact that you list your car with your furniture indicates that you're living in a garage, which costs you points. :)
 
nightcap965 said:
How else can we indicate our status? For example, you have a 12" PowerBook, I have a 12" iBook, therefore I tug my forelock in acknowledgement of your supremacy. On the other hand, the fact that you list your car with your furniture indicates that you're living in a garage, which costs you points. :)
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Stating your status is fine, but listing every piece of furniture, hardware and software in your home is just plain annoying. :mad:
 
I wish that they would get all the bugs worked out of 10.3 before going off and working on another OS. Jaguar is more stable and is what I continue to use everyday.
 
Doctor Q [img said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/upload/thumb/e/ee/200px-Tigers-Eye.jpg[/img]

Imagine the ads... Mac OS X 10.4, the first operating system that is also a fibrous silicified crocidolite!

OK, so maybe I'm not good in the slogan department, but the box would be really pretty.
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That is beautiful Doctor Q. You should send that to Apple, maybe they could incorporate that somehow into the promotion whenever they decide to use the Tiger Code name. The box & CD could be of the Tiger coat and the X the design using his eye.
 
ehh...why don't they just name 10.4 "*****" and get this all over with...my computer is not a freaking animal... stop naming the OS after one. Or if you insist on it, at least make it something less generic....Lnyx or something is better than Tiger...just name it OS Great White and stop it already. Now that I think about it...I like Great White.

o no, what happened to the smilies...they look...awful.

edit...is Puss really a bad word?
 
wdlove said:
I agree that lion would be a good name. But still want to see the tiger used because of its beautiful coat. Cheetah should also be used at the time of maximum speed of the X.
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Cheetah has already been used. It was the name of Mac OS X 10.0, probably so called because it was a "cheat" of a release (i.e. unfinished). 10.1 was called Puma, although these two names were not marketed in the way Jaguar and Panther have been.

At the end of the day, it doesn't matter what big cat they use for each one, it's just good that they are giving them marketable and easily recognisable names which help differentiate the difference between major releases, more so than "10.2" or "10.3" can do.
 
well, the 10.0 could very well be forgotten totally since it is after all only a public beta - which is nice to be available, but beta is not released software yet. and it's just good thing that the first version is not hyped too much, because there are always plenty of bugs to be fixed (microsoft, are you listening? look at apple, that's the way you should also have been doing it) and the software support just wasn't there in that time. [that, by the way, is the #1 reason why linux is not so popular desktop os, so that in mind it is easy to understand why apple chose not to hype it. really, there was no reason at the time.]

but 10.2 "jaguar" was a different kind of story, it was the first really kick-ass mac osx - it lived up to its hype and became really stable system in the end.

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by the way, forget all this ten-dot thing. we have currently mac osx system3 and they are not going to change the osx moniker any time soon. forget os10, that doesn't exist. osX is totally different thing; it's not a mac os anymore, it's a unix now. and we can very well have an osx system50 (that some will still call 10.50) some day...
 
Manatee said:
I hope they change to reptiles for OS XI.
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Why would you prefer reptiles for OS XI? There connotation is all that positive, very similar to a snake.
 
i just HAD to do this.... LOL

JFreak said:
by the way, forget all this ten-dot thing. we have currently mac osx system3 and they are not going to change the osx moniker any time soon. forget os10, that doesn't exist. osX is totally different thing; it's not a mac os anymore, it's a unix now. and we can very well have an osx system50 (that some will still call 10.50) some day...
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actually ten point five (10.5) is really ten point fifty (10.50) cuz the zero on the end doesnt mean anything. so if you really wanted ten point five, look for 10.05! (which i dont think exists :p) Sorry just wanted to point that out.

P.S. So we really have ten point thirty point thirty right now!!!! (im glad they just say ten point three point three- also in ur wondering, i wrote all the numbers out to show the difference between 10.5 and 10.05)
 
Calebj14 said:
actually ten point five (10.5) is really ten point fifty (10.50) cuz the zero on the end doesnt mean anything. so if you really wanted ten point five, look for 10.05! (which i dont think exists :p) Sorry just wanted to point that out.

P.S. So we really have ten point thirty point thirty right now!!!! (im glad they just say ten point three point three- also in ur wondering, i wrote all the numbers out to show the difference between 10.5 and 10.05)
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no.

build numbering is totally different than release numbering. osx panther is a third major release of osx, and that's why they call it "three". osx updates to some major version are dot-something and the naming system clearly tells you the order in which the updates are released and the major release the package is upgrading. so if apple decides to release fifty updates to panther, they will release a 3.50 update of osx.

(the dot does not represent a decimal, but makes a difference between major release and upgrade, and the whole thing is not a version number but a version name. for example oracle uses similar naming scheme and the version name can be something like 9.2.0.1.0 - you can clearly see that it is not a number but a name instead.)

so again, no, osx version is not a number: panther's hundredth update would get release name of 3.100 if they would for some reason want to stick with major release three for that long. and for the very same reason - if apple decides so - the osx system can have more than nine major version releases before osx name would have to be changed. apple can keep the osx for as long as they like, be it a "kittycat osx 99.999" or whatever.
 
Heh, I remember in the bad old days, when they scrapped the Copland plan, but before they bought NeXT, people were all out of order about whether the "next generation" Mac OS would be Mac OS 8, because we'd all gotten used to the name. But if they released an upgrade every year, and it took a long time to roll out the Copland technology, what would happen if they reached version 7.9? What would come next? Ahh... memories.

I don't think Apple will stick with the 10.x marketing for long. But when we move to 11.0, the name Mac OS X will undoubtedly stay -- its become Apple's brand, for better or worse. Just like OS/2 had a version 3, so too will OS X almost certainly have a version 11. And I'm sure numbers will stay fairly irrelevant as Apple pushes a "name" for each release, like Mac OS X Panther.
 
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