OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store • Hacker News Board

Re: OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Post by jason_tko » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 12:58 PM UTC

So... alright. Who's going first?

Re: OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Post by xutopia » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 12:58 PM UTC

coderdude wrote: post #15

Not being a Mac user, is this significant? Like when Windows is released?

EDIT: I'm wrong. The release is downloading. This is indeed a very big deal but I'm really surprised they haven't made more noise about it.

Re: OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Post by phillmv » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 12:59 PM UTC

Can anyone tell me if homebrew still works on it? What about macvim, rvm, mysql binaries, etc?

Waiting is always the hardest part :P.

Re: OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 12:59 PM UTC

coderdude wrote: post #15

Not being a Mac user, is this significant? Like when Windows is released?

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Re: OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Post by ashleyw » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 12:59 PM UTC

coderdude wrote: post #15

Not being a Mac user, is this significant? Like when Windows is released?

If you imagine a Vista which doesn't suck, and a Windows 7 which only costs $30, that's the upgrade to Lion. Nothing groundbreaking, but a nice upgrade nonetheless.

Re: OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Post by cstuder » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 1:00 PM UTC

There are new MacBook Airs too: http://www.apple.com/macbookair/ (With a currently somewhat broken webpage.)

And new Mac Minis (Whose pages are also currently broken...)

Re: OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Post by knowtheory » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 1:00 PM UTC

btucker wrote: post #16

knowtheory wrote: post #10

I'm a bit bummed out that i have to either buy multiple copies of the upgrade, or figure out how to enable my account across my wife's machine and the other machines i have. :( I was quite liking the unrestricted installs for 30$

As far as I know, Mac OS X has always been sold with a single machine license (unless you bought the Family multi-pack).

As far as i recall, Snow Leopard was unlimited installs, that or i did toss in the extra 10-20$ for unlimited installs, i don't recall exactly (i do definitely recall buying a family pack for Leopard).

Regardless, where is that option now?

Edit: what the hell? -1 for saying that i prefer the family pack?

Re: OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Post by thenduks » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 1:03 PM UTC

jason_tko wrote: post #21

So... alright. Who's going first?

Been running the GM seed for quite a while now. Everything has gone smoothly.

Re: OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Post by ashleyw » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 1:03 PM UTC

cstuder wrote: post #26

There are new MacBook Airs too: http://www.apple.com/macbookair/ (With a currently somewhat broken webpage.) And new Mac Minis (Whose pages are also currently broken...)

Quad-core Mac Mini servers… http://store.apple.com/uk/browse/home/shop_mac/family/mac_mi...

Re: OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Post by blinkingled » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 1:03 PM UTC

How is the backwards compatibility in general? I got a Oracle 10g database running on SL that I am particularly worried about.

I got it anyways - will have to do a full backup and find out I suppose.

Speaking of 4GB downloads - OS X still does not have something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background_Intelligent_Transfer... which can utilize priorities, throttling and do idle bandwidth downloads. That means my VOIP calls are screwed until the download is done. Even any of the Apple routers don't do QoS stuff I guess.

[Edit] Apparently the backwards compat is not good enough for Oracle :( -

-bash: ulimit: max user processes: cannot modify limit: Invalid argument oracle@~$ sqlplus / as sysdba Segmentation fault: 11 oracle@~$

[Edit2] And the scrollbars are throwing me off but there is a setting to revert to old behavior. Xcode no longer works, JVM was removed and downloaded when I tried to use it - App Store doesn't seem to have a 10.7 compatible XCode update yet.

Ho hum for the most part and even nightmarish for people using Xcode.