I thought it would show me my iCal events for the day or something, but no such luck. Just type in a name, and boom! you have their info.ģ. The Address Book widget is fast and makes AddressBook far more usable. When it's sunny outside, the sun from the Weather widget spills out above it, gently illuminating the other things on the desktop. It's kind of like when everyone spent about 30 minutes doing the Genie effect when they got Mac OS X 10.0 Beta. Dashboard is cool, where I spent way too long adding and removing widgets just so I could watch the ripple effect (I've got a 1.5 GHz PowerBook G4 17" with 1 GB RAM). I got my copy of Tiger yesterday, so I installed it last night. ![]() So, for anyone out there holding out to see what the feedback is like - don't! You'll just kick yourself harder the longer you hold off upgrading! And hey - it's probably in the EULA which of course I read in detail before installing (*NOT*) My fault for giving my PB a working network connection, but it would have been nice to be asked first before sending off data! Having said that, it's nice not to need loads of installation * The almost-missed "sending registration details to Apple" message was kind of surprising. * The install *really* doesn't like it if you don't enter in valid. I haven't tried either *fully* yet, first impressions are good, and happiness should prevail.Ī couple of interesting things noted last night: Well, I can happily report that my experience has been a happy one! After backing up /Users, /Documents and /Applications/apps (where I put any applications *I* install) - yes, I'm a paranoid bugger - I did a boot->nuke->install of Tiger last night onto my PowerBook G4Īll I can say is that Tiger be pretty, Tiger be fast! It was a complete surprise to find that at long last my problems syncing my Sony Ericsson P900 seem to be over, as are my faxing problems. If you don't know what I'm talking about (presuming you all do!). Along with a friend who's copy arrived at the same time, we upgraded his iBook and my PowerBook overnight. It strikes me as foolish that GNU/Linux people spend so much effort to mimic other people's work, re-implementing large subsystems just to get them under the GPL umbrella, rather than cooperating with others to re-use and improve the best code available. It steals time of those working on GPLed code from doing other work, and selfishly prevents others from benefit from you good ideas if you improve a fork of the work rather than the original work itself. Insisting on re-inventing every wheel just so that everything is covered under GPL is a waste of effort. you provide source code so that Apple and and other users of the APSLed code benefit from the changes. The only limitation is that if you ship an improved version of this code that you make that code available to others under APSL terms. You would also be allowed to link GPLd programs against the supporting APSL licensed frameworks. You would be allowed to compile the daemons using gcc and glibc libraries and use them with no problem from the APSL. ![]() ![]() The FSF concludes that it is ok to use and improve software which other people release under this license. This, in and of itself does not preclude Linux users from using it on their systems. So, what? This is less restrictive than the GPL, not more. Granted, the APSL does not prohibit users of the software to link with proprietary libraries, thus is not a "copyleft" license. It is not a true copyleft, because it allows linking with other files which may be entirely proprietary.įor this reason, we recommend you do not release new software using this license but it is ok to use and improve software which other people release under this license. The FSF now considers the APSL to be a free software license with two major practical problems, reminiscent of the NPL: Yes, you can do hack similar functionality with scripts, but no, this is not convenient or stable. You really want to be able to launch processes depending on different triggers and circumstances, like saying at that time, if the machine has been idle for some time and I'm not running on battery power, then launch that process. Having an unified launching mechanism for processes is really something that is needed on Unix, especially for laptops. I think that this is one of the features of Tiger that should be cloned ported to Linux (John Siracusa seems to agree). Then again I'm really disappointed by the discussion here on slashdot, we get a really technical article (stuff for that matters), and people keep bitching about the price of the upgrade, making silly wishes for g5 laptops or OS for intel.Ī few months ago, Jordan Hubbard came to CERN to talk about some of the Unix elements of Tiger, and talked about launchd. I agree, if more articles linked by slashdot were of this quality, I would sure be happy.
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