Re: X11 for Mac OS X v1.0 to ship in Panther
Re: X11 for Mac OS X v1.0 to ship in Panther
- Subject: Re: X11 for Mac OS X v1.0 to ship in Panther
- From: Oliver Kurlvink <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 14:53:29 +0200
John J. Francini schrieb:
One thing to think about re: "waiting for next major version" -- I
think that Apple has invested so much marketing (and mental) capital
in the name "Mac OS X" that there isn't going to be a "Mac OS XI" any
time soon. Besides, Panther's got enough new stuff in it to qualify as
a (near) major release itself, imho.
Until now I only saw some facelifting stuff, a finder which is even more
wrong than the jaguar one is (and which violates the human interface
guidelines with the brushed metal interface), some stuff which shareware
brought to us months ago, most of the time even better (labels,
option-tab/liteswitch etc.) and some really nice apps like xcode, which
should work on jaguar too. So *currently* panther looks like a 10.2.8 to me.
Regarding the version numbering, apple all the time was not able to use
correct versioning for osx. apple talks about "Mac OS X 10.2", which is
wrong, because I'm not using the tenth version of mac os x, but the
third one. Panther should be named as "Mac OS X 3" or "MacOS 10.3" or
"Mac OS XI" or "Mac OS 11". But the cd cover displayed "Mac OS X Version
11". This is of course wrong in many ways. It is not the 11th release of
MacOS or Mac OS X. It is wrong whether one takes the "X" as a number or
as a trademark.
Hopefully some intelligent person at Apple starts thinking about that
and the next OS will be correctly named "Mac OS X Version 3" or "Mac OS
11" or "Mac OS XI". And by the way Apple started counting with "0", so
we end up with "Mac OS X Version 0", "Mac OS X Version 1", "Mac OS X
Version 2" and now Version 3 with Panther, which would normally be
version 4, because software releases start at 1.0, not 0.0.
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