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Re:OS X Yosemite public beta signup by Aaronn on Monday June 02, 2014 @03:20PM (#7835469)
I think the link will be here: https://appleseed.apple.com/betaprogram/
Re:OS X Yosemite public beta signup by fjk on Monday June 02, 2014 @03:33PM (#7835614)
This link works now
Re:OS X Yosemite public beta signup by selectout on Monday June 02, 2014 @03:53PM (#7835819)
Make sure to not install this on your main machine, especially if you have anything of importance on it.

This is still a beta and should be treated as such. I know I had major issues with the last OSX beta I put on mine.

Re:OS X Yosemite public beta signup by k-mcgrady on Monday June 02, 2014 @03:56PM (#7835855)
>> "I know I had major issues with the last OSX beta I put on mine."

I've usually heard the betas of OSX have been quite stable. Considering they are going to run a public beta of this I would assume it's more stable than usual OS betas they released. I was considering installing it on my main system (I only have one Mac) but you've put me off a bit. What happened to your system?

Re:OS X Yosemite public beta signup by gnufied on Monday June 02, 2014 @04:11PM (#7835983)
Earlier betas of Mavericks were damn unstable/unusable. Apps crashing all over the place, third party apps not working because of changed APIs etc. I had to revert as well (not this beta though).
Re:OS X Yosemite public beta signup by jayfehr on Monday June 02, 2014 @04:13PM (#7835999)
Try it in a VM first. Most things will be fine, however if it were production ready it wouldn't be marked beta. Something that you need may be disabled or in flux leaving you hanging.
Re:OS X Yosemite public beta signup by strobe on Monday June 02, 2014 @04:18PM (#7836037)
which of current VMs application able to run OSX on mac hardware?
Re:OS X Yosemite public beta signup by selectout on Monday June 02, 2014 @05:11PM (#7836431)
user gnufied put it best, they changed a bunch of APIs and a lot of my programs were left unworking or crashing much more than usual. With that said, I know that Mavericks was a unique use case, but still might be a good idea to wait for a few reviews.
Re:OS X Yosemite public beta signup by batuhanicoz on Monday June 02, 2014 @03:49PM (#7835771)
I've started downloading it. I don't think you have to use this link, I've started my download from the Member Center[0]. It gave a "redeem code" and started downloading.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/devcenter/ios/index.action

Edit: This is only for people who are members of the Developer Program. I only pay for iOS and I have access to OS X too so you probably only need membership from the one of the developer programs.

Re:OS X Yosemite public beta signup by shadesandcolour on Monday June 02, 2014 @03:49PM (#7835782)
That's how developers get access to builds. Starting in the summer, Apple is also doing a public beta, and you have to sign up at the link to get access
Re:OS X Yosemite public beta signup by tijs on Monday June 02, 2014 @04:10PM (#7835972)
Love the fog effect. I wonder how many people will notice..
Re:OS X Yosemite public beta signup by mentat on Monday June 02, 2014 @03:32PM (#7835595)
"Spotlight makes it easier than ever to find things on your Mac. And now it finds information from Wikipedia, Bing, Maps, and other sources, too."
Re:OS X Yosemite public beta signup by mentat on Monday June 02, 2014 @03:40PM (#7835701)
Seriously, downvotes? Calling out Bing is interesting.
Re:OS X Yosemite public beta signup by publicfig on Monday June 02, 2014 @03:52PM (#7835814)
Your top comment had nothing to do with this discussion and I have no idea what you mean by "Calling out Bing", because they're saying that you can now find things using Bing.
Re:OS X Yosemite public beta signup by k-mcgrady on Monday June 02, 2014 @03:54PM (#7835835)
I didn't down vote you but I can understand why you were. You copied a quote from the source with no explanation of why or what was interesting about it.
Re:OS X Yosemite public beta signup by lupinglade on Monday June 02, 2014 @02:10PM (#7834885)
Link doesn’t work yet.