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Mac OS X available to Student ADC Members

updated 03:05 am EST, Fri March 16, 2001

 
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Apple is seeding a release candidate of Mac OS X to student ADC members, after sending copies last week to its Select and Premier Developers: "a special edition of the monthly ADC Seed mailing is on its way to ADC Student members. This mailing contains Mac OS X Release Candidate Installation and Developer Tools CDs," noting that those with Public Beta Developer Tools need to take special steps when installing the release candidate...


If you have Public Beta Developer Tools installed you need to take
additional steps when installing the Release Candidate. You must do
this to insure that all the essential files are installed. Failure
to do the following will result in your being unable to log in
to your system.


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    Thank God!

    I have been waiting so so very patiently!

    but I am rather confused here.. why would someone use the public beta dev tools when we get an fc dev tools cd?

    I assume this is referring to an upgrade install, not a reinstall. I somehow dont think I trust an install over top of a previous installation. I use a seperate partition anyway!

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    Release Candidate = GM?

    I'm not a developer, but is the release candidate version the same as the shipping retail version? It would suck for all these developers to get a copy of Mac OSX that isn't the one we're all gonna buy on March 24th. (especially when they pay like a couple hundred dollars for an account?)

    can anyone explain this terminology to me? does Release candidate = the shipping retail version?

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    Release Candidate = GM?

    No, the Release Candidate is not the GM, but there's no need to feel sorry for the developers: They'll get the Release Candidate AND they'll get the final version, as well. :)

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    Release Canidate

    I have the RC and it stands for a canidate for GM. Meaning, one treats it as if it were GM, but it's not the offical GM. However, this same build could be the GM if deamed that the RC is acceptable for GM. (which in this case may be true however only Apple really know until a GM comes out and the build numbers revealed)
    The RC has nice enhancements to NetInfo (no longer broadcast only) and LDAP tools. Classic if fast although not stable on my computer. Many options are skeletons of what they could/should be (NetInfo, DHCP, AppleMenu, etc) but one has to believe apple did that on purpose to see what is "needed" and what is "wanted" after inital feedback from regular end users. Watch for MacOS X.1 (or X 10.1 as the About box suggests) to included these add-ons along with bugfixes

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    dev cd tools

    Developers who received PB also received developer tools cd... I would assume its the same one apple had for download. Now developers are getting a new version of OS X and some may want to install RC X over PB X... and if they have the PB dev tools installing the RC verison of X before taking the "extra steps" could cause a problme...

    Simple as pi :)

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    Woo Hoo!

    n/t

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    And those steps are???

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    Failure to do the following...
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    the following would be ??!?!!!?

    Can anyone confirm this and post what those instructions are?

    tia.

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    ACD student devs

    One would imagine the partial text MacNN quoted above is part of a letter sent to all ADC Student developers who receive this release candidate. That being said, why would they need to post the full details on what needs to be done when everyone who needs to worry about it will be receiving those instructions directly. If you are a student dev, don't worry about this until you get the stuff...if the instructions aren't included, THEN worry, but until then just relax.

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    The Magical Steps

    involved changing one file name and one directory name in your current OS X PB file structure (You could have deleted them, if you preferred). That was it!

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    Steve's Planning Somethi

    I think this is more proof Steve Jobs has something up his sleve for the GM release. If the GM is already shipping to some resellers, why would he bother sending the FC release to developers?

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