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Leopard development disk leaked


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Redmond, start your copiers… er… DVD burners.

 

We received word yesterday that the developer’s preview of OS X Leopard is making its way through the depths of those internet "tubes."

 

The “scene” release, called APPLE.MAC.OSX.LEOPARD.V10.5.WWDC.PREVIEW-OSX, is reported to be build 9A241, the same that was handed out at this week’s WWDC.

 

From the .nfo:

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::Information::

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WWDC Preview?

This is a copy of the preview install demonstrated on the 7th of Aug (couple of days ago) at Worldwide Developers Conference. Final is due in spring 2007, apparently, but so far it looks pretty good.

Our sources have confirmed that this is a legitimate release, in contrast to several other earlier “leaks” that were later proven to be hoaxes. Sources indicate that this 4.3 gig release was released to several private ftp servers yesterday and has only begun appearing on various torrent sites. Developments on the leak have been followed in this thread.

 

Stay tuned... more info as we have it...

 

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forgive me but i'm unclear - will the installer run on my PPC G5 or not? i am getting an Intel in a few days anyway, but i just want to know if i have a chance with it on my PowerMac.

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Colonels - can u give us any idea of how stable it is? As its a developer release I'm guessing its OK, what whould it be like to run it as a main OS for eg.??

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According to Colonels, Mach_Kernel is still being used, and no firware update was required on his Macbook...

 

Also, an interesting line I saw in the users manual said that Leopard may not recognize over 2GB's of Ram. I'd have to think that would only be a pre-release constrait, seeing as how the Mac Pro has 4GB's of Ram.

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yeah and up to 16GB!

I think we all know that this will be far from the final version - but im intrigued to see what time macine is like - especially on an iBook G4 Vs the MacBook im about to get. Should be an interesing one.

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forgive me but i'm unclear - will the installer run on my PPC G5 or not? i am getting an Intel in a few days anyway, but i just want to know if i have a chance with it on my PowerMac.

 

It should run with no problem on your G5.

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Colonels - can u give us any idea of how stable it is? As its a developer release I'm guessing its OK, what whould it be like to run it as a main OS for eg.??

 

So far, it has been really stable. The only thing the has crashed so far was Colloquy. I'm not using it as my main OS because of it's beta state, so I am dual booting with Tiger.

 

I have to say, Leopard is really awesome :)

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Ok, some info for y'all. The build is really good in my opinion. Lots of new things to keep one amused and plenty to make the experience better than Tiger. I won't be booting Tiger again. iChat is majorly changed which is very good for someone like me who spends most of their day in it.

 

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just wondering, how are you guys installing this? does it let you create a separate partition? or do you have to install it over Tiger? Also, can you uninstall leopard without ruining the Tiger partition? Is a dual layer DVD required? or can you just use a disk image to install it. I'm a bit reluctant because I don't want to mess up my data.

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how would you partition the drive without losing data (to install 10.5), I know of ipartition, but I want something that's free, does anyone know of a free tool that would partition my HD, kinda like bootcamp

I have a macbook pro, so the HD is built in, and I dont have a firewire HD.

 

thanks in advance,

:P

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There is another possibility that you can do, however it would require that you have an original OS X install DVD and any type of external hard drive including the iPod (USB or Firewire works just fine).

 

Extract the contents of your installation source to a folder (/Users/<Your Username>/Desktop/OSX)

 

Open your terminal

cp /usr/bin/open /Volumes/<Volume Name>/

cp -Rvf /Users/<Your Username>/Desktop/OSX /Volumes/<Volume Name>/

 

Reboot with your OS X Install DVD in your drive and boot to it as if you were to install it.

 

When it loads, open your terminal.

/Volumes/<Volume Name>/open /Volumes/<Volume Name>/OSX/Install Mac OS X.pkg

 

Congratulations, you are now set to install OS X 10.5 with an OS X 10.4 disc and an external harddrive as it uses relative links to install.

 

You can also use this method with any other software package and run it through the installer disc.

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does this leopard install have bootcamp in it? if so would you be willing to try vista and see if its a newer build? and how big is it? i have a 60 gb hard drive and i have 10.4 with Vista and need to save as much space as possible.

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Bootcamp is on the installation discs, however I am running on a Powerbook, so I can not use boot camp. Hopefully someone will get it installed on one of the new intel systems so that we can determine if Bootcamp does have any nice enhancements to make life a little better for everyone...

 

Personally, I would love it if by the time Leopard shipped, Bootcamp worked under PPCs so that you could resize non-gpt partitions so that one could easily install Linux to run along side OS X.

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Tried that for about 2 hours, however I can not get them to function. In fact, after installing the updated Spotlight, finder as a whole completely crapped out on me.

 

(I think that you may see where that is going...)

 

That being the case, I think that it would be a good bet that Finder may be getting a refresh when it comes time for Leopard to ship.

 

- On another note -

 

If you use Pacifist to solely install the Libraries and Support Files for Dashboard and Spotlight (not the apps themselves), then you can install the updated Safari over Tiger without many ill effects. It runs fairly slowly and crashes often (probably missed something in my testing before the entire installation fell apart), but it will "function" under Tiger. (Here I was about to type "run"... Hah, yea... Run... HA HA HA HA!!!)

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To the Guys, who have installed the Leopard,

did you installed it over a Tiger on a Hackintosh, or an original IntelMac?

 

Please explain to us.

 

Thanks.

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