Apple announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion • Hacker News Board

Re: Apple announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

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Post by poodougnut » Thu, Feb 16, 2012, 2:20 PM UTC

Right, so they've completely trashed the interface.

Re: Apple announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

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Post by va_coder » Thu, Feb 16, 2012, 2:21 PM UTC

It looks like an enormous distraction box. They should top it off with a widget for HN ;)

Re: Apple announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

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Post by pilif » Thu, Feb 16, 2012, 2:21 PM UTC

It seems like the OS is either defaulting to allowing only only App Store applications or at least only (Apple-)signed applications: http://www.apple.com/macosx/mountain-lion/security.html

It's still possible to turn this off, but I have a feeling that we should enjoy our freedom to run GNU grep instead of BSD grep for as long as it lasts.

Re: Apple announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

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Post by ksajadi » Thu, Feb 16, 2012, 2:22 PM UTC

I wish anything that uses Growl can use notifications out of the box. it's just not going to happen is it?

Re: Apple announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

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Post by edu » Thu, Feb 16, 2012, 2:24 PM UTC

I hope it'll be a free update.

Re: Apple announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

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Post by Argorak » Thu, Feb 16, 2012, 2:25 PM UTC

zrgiu_ wrote: post #7

is there a specific reason they needed to update the entire OS for this ? Most of the new features are actually apps, and the rest wouldn't really justify a major version change.

Well, Ubuntu does this every 6 months. They also pick another silly name every 12. Maybe Ubuntu is becoming the role model here?

Re: Apple announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Feb 16, 2012, 2:28 PM UTC

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Re: Apple announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

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Post by bdunbar » Thu, Feb 16, 2012, 2:28 PM UTC

latch wrote: post #5

Craiggybear wrote: post #2

Already?

they are adopting a 1-year release cycle.

Fascinating. I'm still on 10.6: no compelling reason to upgrade.

By the time I _do_ upgrade I'm in for some future shock: like dropping a Victorian gentleman into Haight-Ashbury in 1968.

Re: Apple announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

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Post by oomkiller » Thu, Feb 16, 2012, 2:30 PM UTC

pilif wrote: post #13

It seems like the OS is either defaulting to allowing only only App Store applications or at least only (Apple-)signed applications: http://www.apple.com/macosx/mountain-lion/security.html It's still possible to turn this off, but I have a feeling that we should enjoy our freedom to run GNU grep instead of BSD grep for as long as it lasts.

For some reason I doubt that this runs all the way down to the UNIX level of things. It's probably just the restriction to only run signed .app bundles, and maybe signed installer packages. I guess we'll have to wait and see.

Re: Apple announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

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Post by gkefalas » Thu, Feb 16, 2012, 2:31 PM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #17

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You're misunderstanding. An app can be freely available outside of the App Store but still be signed: http://www.macworld.com/article/165408/2012/02/mountain_lion...