Mac OS X 10.5.2 seeded to developers
When I asked Santa Steve for iPhone stability, a number of people left comments asking not for iPhone stability but for Leopard stability -- as it seems that not everyone's been enjoying a trouble-free few months with Leopard.Thankfully, if you're waiting with bated breath for OS X 10.5.2, then you might be intrigued to hear from ITwire that OS X 10.5.2 has been seeded to developers. Sure, it's no big surprise that Apple is always working on the next update, but given that the update is currently weighing in at around 350MB there's clearly plenty that the Cupertino geniuses are working to resolve in the forthcoming update.
Whilst the smart money says that we'll have to wait until Macworld for the update, I'm certain that plenty of readers with big-cat issues would rather see it a little sooner.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Dan S. said 10:09AM on 12-28-2007
TUAW, welcome to 10 days ago.
According to other Mac sites, 10.5.2 (9C7) was seeded on the 18th of December.
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Dan S. said 10:09AM on 12-28-2007
Link to article:
http://www.macrumors.com/2007/12/18/apple-seeds-mac-os-x-10-5-2-and-java-se-6-preview-8-for-leopard/
ddebor said 10:19AM on 12-28-2007
Why does everyone say that Leopard is unstable? I haven't had any problems with it yet (knock on wood, just in case) and love it. Still, an update is always goo news.
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Scott said 10:29AM on 12-28-2007
Maybe your Leopard is eating your "d"s ("goo news"?)
Just kidding. My iMac has worked flawlessly with Leopard since the day I got it, which was about 3 days after Leopard shipped. I think the people who complain the loudest about instability are probably ones with complicated setups.
Thomas said 10:45AM on 12-28-2007
Leopard was very unstable on my MacBook Pro after I did the upgrade from Tiger. Then I decided to do a clean format and install Leopard and now it runs really smoothly! Have had not one OS problem since. So I guess it's the "upgrade" option on the Leopard DVD that is shitty.
Jon Niola said 10:53AM on 12-28-2007
Seems the experience depends on the machine. I bought a new Macbook Pro with Leopard pre-installed and have not had one single problem. But I also have a G4 mini that when I installed Leopard had so many problems I ended up restoring my Tiger install from backup.
Think Adrian said 11:12AM on 12-28-2007
Have you tried any networking? Leopard looses network shares from the sidebar often, can't keep network-drive connections when waking from sleep and in some wlan networks certain websites are unavailable, including google.com :-O
Simon Arch said 11:37AM on 12-28-2007
Like Thomas I went the upgrade path and suddenly I was in hell. Most stuff worked, but there were myriad "issues" which made the whole experience miserable. I went back to 10.4.10 (I tried .11 and it was as bad as 10.5) Then last week I decided to do a clean install and voilà, it works almost perfectly. I'm still having file extension "issues" and I really want to know why the Finder can't remember individual folder view settings, but overall it's been great.
Ozbone said 10:47AM on 12-28-2007
Regardless of who was first to report, I am definitely ready for an update. My Leopard experience has been just OK; major install issues (on more than one machine) and general but persistent bugginess.
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Siemova said 11:29AM on 12-28-2007
10.5.2 will be nice, but I"m more impressed by Nik's spelling "bated" correctly! I've seen so many people type "baited"... It drives me batty. ^_^
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James Madley said 11:42AM on 12-28-2007
Leopard's been great for me. Installed on my MacBook Pro the day I got it and it's been much more responsive and easier to use.
It's also running great on my parent's iMac. Tiger always ran better on it and Leopard is no exception.
Installed Leopard on my sister's PowerBook on Boxing Day (and reinstalled Tiger on a separate partition for Photoshop 7) so I don't know how it will run but based on my other experiences she should see vast improvements. Tiger was awful on that computer in comparison to my MBP.
And have I encountered any networking bugs? Nope. The only problems lately were that relatives brought their XP/Vista laptops and it took about an hour every time they left the network to rejoin. Of course for the Mac users we just got straight on.
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ron green said 12:00PM on 12-28-2007
Yahoo!!!!! They fixed stacks. You now have an option to display as stack or folder.
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Dan Parmelee said 12:35PM on 12-28-2007
There are still issues with the Atheros drivers (my MBP has kernel panicked a few times) as far as I know. Hopefully 10.5.2 will remedy that.
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Jayson said 12:36PM on 12-28-2007
Leopard no so great for me so far.
I can't even get it to install on my G5 iMac.
I'll hope to get it running by the time this update comes out, it looks good. Especially the Stacks fix.
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Tyler said 12:40PM on 12-28-2007
are any of you using wireless N on a linksys router i had to set my router to G only to be able to use airport on my macbook pro
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Jon Crawford said 1:19AM on 12-29-2007
Same here.
Wireless-N with a MBP on Leopard. Does Not Work.
Paddy said 1:14PM on 12-28-2007
"only problems with complicated setups"
Not so for me. I bought a 24" imac from apple store with leopard dvd in the box. Did the leopard install immediately and have had a host of issues.
* mouse freezes on wakeup from sleep, need a reboot to fix
* audio stops working intertmittantly, need to restart coreauds service to restore.
* System froze while playing a dvd
* iPhoto quits unexpectantly
* network shares disappear
* Couldn't unmount dmg images
and so on...
If you search apples discussion forum for reports of system freezes/crashes you will find many reports.
I do like leopard but it was definitely a buggy release and hope the upcoming release addresses the issues I'm having.
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Travis Bell said 1:44PM on 12-28-2007
In regards to the inability to unmount disk images, it seems to be most commonly triggered when I move the .dmg into the trash without un-mounting it first.
In Tiger, it didn't matter... you could cmd-e and it would still unmount properly. Now it seems like I have to make sure to unmount before I do ANYTHING with it.
Just an FYI.
Paddy said 1:53PM on 12-28-2007
Oh and I forgot, one biggie...
* syslogd thrashes up 99% of cpu usage, system unusable
Took me ages to recover from that one, I could barely use the system, I had to get on my old PC to surf the web for solutions, apparently I am not alone and it has happened quite a lot. Apparent reason was log file passed some size threshold which triggered this behavior.
Nick said 5:40PM on 12-28-2007
I bought a 24" iMac from the store on the 23rd December, with the Leopard DVD in the box. It started up as Tiger so I installed Leopard and it's been a breeze. Smooth, fast and efficient. The perfect upgrade from my Windows XP PC!