Re:OS X Yosemite public beta signup
by k-mcgrady on Monday June 02, 2014 @03:56PM
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>> "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
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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
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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 selectout on Monday June 02, 2014 @05:11PM
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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
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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.
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
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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 publicfig on Monday June 02, 2014 @03:52PM
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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
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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.
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.
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?
[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.