Mac OS X 10.6.1 is out already.

Re:Mac OS X 10.6.1 is out already. by randallsquared on Thursday September 10, 2009 @09:40PM (#816611)

Although compay is now repudiating his comment, I'll bite: Even if there's nothing that was fixed in 10.6.1 that would have been important to me, the fact that we got to the first point release without such a fix is better evidence that there was no such problem in 10.6.0, something I would only know, otherwise, had I taken the chance and installed it. Therefore, in the sense that matters, it doesn't make any difference whether there was an important fix in this release, because if there was, it was fixed, and if there wasn't, it's evidence that there was no problem to fix.

Either way, it pays to wait if you're risk averse. And I am.

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Re:Mac OS X 10.6.1 is out already. by MikeCapone on Thursday September 10, 2009 @10:11PM (#816656)

I totally agree that it's a good rule of thumb to always at least wait for the first point release.

But it just got me thinking that we must understand these heuristics and not just follow them blindly.

I wasn't saying the OC did a bad thing, just thinking out loud about how "wait for the first point release" can be arbitrary since with such a popular software, you could read the feedback on various forums to see how stable it is.

If you're going to be having a major problem, chances are others will have it too. And if it's a minor problem that almost nobody has except you, it might not be fixed in the first point release.

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Re:Mac OS X 10.6.1 is out already. by silvestrov on Friday September 11, 2009 @08:22AM (#817207)

I think Apple wanted to play down releasing a security update so shortly after the initial release because the media went crazy about 10.6 shipping with a non-secure Flash player.

So they mixed in a few small improvements and shipped it as a point release. It played well, I haven't seen any articles in e.g. computerworld that Apple finally fixed the security problem.

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Re:Mac OS X 10.6.1 is out already. by randallsquared on Thursday September 10, 2009 @10:42PM (#816702)

I was planning to wait until SIMBL was working on 10.6, but it appears that it already is if you tell the app it's modifying to open in 32-bit, so I might upgrade shortly.

I agree that with such widely distributed software, browsing forums and news aggregators might well be as useful as waiting to see what's fixed.

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Re:Mac OS X 10.6.1 is out already. by brodie on Friday September 11, 2009 @12:50AM (#816876)

SIMBL will probably fall into obsolescence with input managers being disabled for 64-bit apps.

PlugSuit, on the other hand, is SIMBL-compatible and uses a completely different method of injection. The author just needs to work around some new limitations introduced in Snow Leopard before it works with 64-bit apps. I would keep your eyes peeled for an update.

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Re:Mac OS X 10.6.1 is out already. by randallsquared on Friday September 11, 2009 @12:52AM (#816878)

If only they would enable copy-on-select as a regular preference for Terminal, I'd have no further need of SIMBL. :)

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Re:Mac OS X 10.6.1 is out already. by dasil003 on Thursday September 10, 2009 @09:52PM (#816632)

I'm not going to install it. I'm going to wait until the next MBP refresh, then buy that and manually copy my files. At that point I will rebuild all my unix stuff from scratch and put it in ~.

Right now I'm running a byzantine mess of a 10.3 upgraded to 10.4 upgrade to 10.5 and then transferred through 2 machines via Time Machine.

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