Talk:Mac OS X Leopard

Info on iCal Dock Date Wrong!

The wiki page reads: "The icon also reflects the current date even when the application is not running. In previous versions, the icon would remain at July 17th until the application was run." This is not correct.

In Leopard, the iCal dock icon does indeed update it's self, however in Panther the iCal dock icon would update and remain updated provided the user launch iCal once a day. When Tiger came out, this feature was for some reason removed, causing the icon to revert to July 17th when iCal is exited. All Leopard did was re-enable this feature, and make the icon auto update without having to launch iCal. Nabeel_co 05:51, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Title Change Needed

I was searching for this and it took me quite a while to find it. I would suggest changing the name to "Mac OSX Version 10.5 "Leopard" " this will make this page easier to read. (I cannot find how to do this though). Earlier I madea page called leopard System which had a link to here and now redirects to hear. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stealth500 (talk • contribs) 13:44, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

No other OS X version page has the cat name in it, and people have managed to find them. Note that if you just look for "Leopard", it takes you (as it should), to the page for leopards, but that page points you to the "leopard" disambiguation page, which has a link to the page for 10.5. The same applies to the page for tigers and the "tiger" disambiguation page, the latter of which links to the page for 10.4; the page for panther is a disambiguation page which links to the page for 10.3, and the cats for 10.0, 10.1, and 10.2 have disambiguation pages that point to the OS X pages. Guy Harris (talk) 18:40, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

There is something called a redirect as well. Use it to create as many aliases of the title as you want. --soum ^talk 07:42, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

So does tha mean I could make a few redirrects here? I will go do that.

thanks --Stealth500 (talk) 12:14, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Better Image for Leopard Packaging

I Just found an Image of the Mac OS X Leopard Box in Higher Resolution. I'm not experienced when it Comes to Uploading Pictures, So if Anyone Knows how to, here is the Link: http://www.curtsheller.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/leopard-box.png --Christian Cardozo 19:51, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Universal release

The article claims that Leopard is a universal release (wikilinking to universal binary) but the universal binary article implies that universal binaries are only handled by Mac OS X, meaning that Mac OS X would have to already be running in order to start Leopard. Also, the source given for the claim that Leopard is a universal release just calls it a "universal operating system" appearently in the sense that it is both 32-bit and 64-bit. - Josh (talk | contribs) 22:07, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Universal binaries "are only handled by" OS X in the sense that other OSes don't support that mechanism. Some of the universal binaries that are handled by Mac OS X are themselves part of Mac OS X. The support consists of:

1. support for booting universal-binary kernels (/mach_kernel);

2. support for loading universal-binary kernel extensions;

3. support for launching universal-binary userland code with the exec-family calls;

4. support in the run-time linker for loading universal shared libraries and plugins;

5. universal forms of shared libraries in OS X, so that the libraries a particular universal executable image requires are available for all processor types.

The first of those is part of the OS X booting architecture; that architecture is platform-specific (for one thing, the PowerPC Macs use Open Firmware while the x86 Macs use the Extensible Firmware Interface), so that part isn't universal. Once the kernel is up and running, that gives you the third of those, and that, in combination with support in the user-mode portion of kernel extension loading, gives you the second of those. The run-time linker, which is loaded and run with all dynamically-linked binaries, gives you the fourth of those, and the fifth is a function of the way the OS X binaries are built.

An additional reference for the fact that all the binaries are universal (except perhaps for binaries that don't make sense as universal binaries, such as the binaries that implement Rosetta) would be useful. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Guy Harris (talk • contribs) 23:07, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

new screenshot

could someone take a real screen shot? (i.e. not using a camera) the current screenshot is blurry. 70.189.30.78 (talk) 23:48, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

The current screenshot wasn't taken with a camera. It was just rescaled, because fair use images have to be smaller scale. See Wikipedia:Non-free content AlistairMcMillan (talk) 23:53, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Reviews?

What would be really good (it's what I came to this page looking for in fact) would be a summary of the reviews in magazines and authoritative websites. The criticism section has some useful points, but by itself it is disjointed from the rest of the article. At the moment the article is basically a feature list which could have been compiled simply by looking at apple.com and no other sources. Ireneshusband (talk) 23:33, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Also under the critism section why isn't there more? EG: many of the bugs like copying files, incompatibilty etc etc. It needs more outside sources and a general expansion. -Mbatman 72 00:12, 17 January 2008 (UTC)