View Full Version : Mac OS X 10.5.7 to be release this friday...
andyvand
05-07-2009, 02:54 AM
According to some "super-secret Apple source"—who hopefully is not the Infinite Loop campus' building #5 janitor's brother in law who has a son working at the Minneapolis' Apple Store in—Mac OS 10.5.7 will be out this Friday. It'll bring networking, syncing, iChat, Safari, and Bluetooth updates, among other things. Source: MacLife (http://www.maclife.com/article/news/1057_hitting_your_macs_friday)
So I'll have some work to do on friday...
Lets hope Apple also publishes the sources on that day...
andyvand
05-09-2009, 03:38 PM
The rumors weren't accurate apparently...
Even though apple has changed the site a lot...
See for yourself:
http://www.opensource.apple.com/
They are definitely gearing up to come out with something...
naquaada
05-09-2009, 03:58 PM
Yes, there were announces several weeks ago... Let's wait, they'll bring it when it's finished. Didn't you wanted to create a tool for me that reads out the information of my opteron processors?
Say, could it be possible that you're creating a combo update package? I noticed that the update of Leo4All 10.5.3 to 10.5.6 got a much better result than a real 10.5.6 installation, but there have to be a lot of kexts fixed. A fixed ComboUpdate at least from 10.5.2 (Leo4All V3 was 10.5.2) would be smaller and easier to handle as a completely new installation DVD. I think a lot of users would appreciate that, if an update automatically installs the new kernel and so. Myzar did that, I had a 10.4.6 DVD which was the same like his 10.4.5 DVD but contained a 10.4.6 update and later he released a 10.4.7 update. Since JaS released his 10.4.8 image there were mostly only new installation DVDs and all contained the Disk Utility bug, it was frustrating.
BTW, also take a look at AppleThermal.kext plz. Maybe it's really the solution for hot AMD cpus, the temperature is about 7°C/44°F lower when it's loaded in 10.5.3. I think you can fix the dependencies problem faster than me ;)
andyvand
05-09-2009, 04:49 PM
Yes, there were announces several weeks ago... Let's wait, they'll bring it when it's finished. Didn't you wanted to create a tool for me that reads out the information of my opteron processors?
Say, could it be possible that you're creating a combo update package? I noticed that the update of Leo4All 10.5.3 to 10.5.6 got a much better result than a real 10.5.6 installation, but there have to be a lot of kexts fixed. A fixed ComboUpdate at least from 10.5.2 (Leo4All V3 was 10.5.2) would be smaller and easier to handle as a completely new installation DVD. I think a lot of users would appreciate that, if an update automatically installs the new kernel and so. Myzar did that, I had a 10.4.6 DVD which was the same like his 10.4.5 DVD but contained a 10.4.6 update and later he released a 10.4.7 update. Since JaS released his 10.4.8 image there were mostly only new installation DVDs and all contained the Disk Utility bug, it was frustrating.
BTW, also take a look at AppleThermal.kext plz. Maybe it's really the solution for hot AMD cpus, the temperature is about 7°C/44°F lower when it's loaded in 10.5.3. I think you can fix the dependencies problem faster than me ;)
It's not that hard...
Open AppleACPIPlatform.kext, navigate to plugins and copy the thermal kext to an editable place...
Open and edit the Info.plist
Make sure the AppleACPIPlatform.kext version is set to 1.2.4 (for latest AppleACPIPlatform) and edit the rest to the compatible versions (check the Info.plists of each)...
Afterwards install in the proper place, remove ext cache and reboot...
This fixed it for me...
And yes (jazeker) I'll make an update package when it's released and I've modified the sources...
naquaada
05-09-2009, 06:00 PM
Would be great :D It's also quicker to download than a whole installation image.
oneshot
05-09-2009, 09:13 PM
I still don't think I'm going to update OSX untill I have a reason to.
naquaada
05-09-2009, 10:12 PM
I also could live with the 10.5.3 I'm using, but somedays it is time to update.
andyvand
05-09-2009, 10:25 PM
I also could live with the 10.5.3 I'm using, but somedays it is time to update.
I allways kept my system nicely up to date...
It is better and it allways squashes some bugs...
xXrkidXx
05-09-2009, 11:02 PM
i update if i have to... i always attempt to update(like when theres a new 10.5.x) but it always crashes, no matter what guide im following...
naquaada
05-09-2009, 11:10 PM
@Andy: I wasn't finding a suitable image yet. I tested a lot, but none of them was working correctly. The first good one was the XxX Final 2, but it is much slower and hotter than 10.5.3, so I don't install it as 10.5.3 runs fine. By the way, some weeks ago I had still my Radeon X1600Pro, and with this card wasn't running Quicktime 7.5 or higher correctly, a simple DivX movie needed up to 90% cpu time. I'm still running 7.4.5 actually, everything works great. But I've got new gfx cards, the Radeon HD2600XT supports Quicktime 7.6 at normal speed.
Wasn't Apple saying something about Quicktime X in Snow Leopard which should be a light-weight version of Quicktime?
andyvand
05-10-2009, 12:35 AM
@Andy: I wasn't finding a suitable image yet. I tested a lot, but none of them was working correctly. The first good one was the XxX Final 2, but it is much slower and hotter than 10.5.3, so I don't install it as 10.5.3 runs fine. By the way, some weeks ago I had still my Radeon X1600Pro, and with this card wasn't running Quicktime 7.5 or higher correctly, a simple DivX movie needed up to 90% cpu time. I'm still running 7.4.5 actually, everything works great. But I've got new gfx cards, the Radeon HD2600XT supports Quicktime 7.6 at normal speed.
Wasn't Apple saying something about Quicktime X in Snow Leopard which should be a light-weight version of Quicktime?
QuickTime X is also 64-bit capable and a great framework for building on video and audio and stuff...
It is a worthy successor of the good ol' 32-bit QuickTime...
naquaada
05-10-2009, 12:40 AM
Then you'll have enough work... ordering one full 64 bit-capable AMD kernel now :D
andyvand
05-10-2009, 12:56 AM
Then you'll have enough work... ordering one full 64 bit-capable AMD kernel now :D
Sure I will...
In a sense I will then have double the work that I do now...
Since it has an universal binary with then at least 2 archs (i386 and x86_64)
So double the work in kernel source land...
newbmac
05-12-2009, 09:26 PM
it's out! Anyone wanna test it?
xandizitxu
05-14-2009, 01:00 AM
Im running the VooDoo 9.6.0 v1.1 released by someone here on the forum, sorry I dont remember the name of the user and I want to say great thanks to him since it fix the problems that I had on 9.5 . iPC 10.5.6
So can I install this, replace all the kexts from the working one and reinstaling the 9.6 kernel it should work?
Or do I have to wait for someone to release a working 10.5.7 update?!
Thanks for the help!