TL;DR full screen with multiple monitors is still broken http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/07/os-x-10-8/18/#full-scre...
John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review
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Re: John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review
#62TL;DR full screen with multiple monitors is still broken http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/07/os-x-10-8/18/#full-scre...
At least Mission Control has been fixed. New option that brings back Tiger/Leopard's all-windows Exposé:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/07/os-x-10-8/19/#mission-c...
Re: John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review
#63I've suggested this before (and not done much about it), but that is not going to stop me suggesting it again.
How about a crowd-sourced 'Siracusa style' review of Ubuntu 12.04? Or Debian Wheezy, or Fedora (large integer, preferably 18 because that is the version that RHEL 7 will be based on)? Or the safe and conservative CentOS/SciLi/PUIAS version 6.3, now being targeted by Oracle. Or your favourite GNU/Linux, or BSD?
So many of the free software reviews are shallow.
I think the Penguins have done enough work to merit something with depth
Re: John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review
#64I've suggested this before (and not done much about it), but that is not going to stop me suggesting it again. How about a crowd-sourced 'Siracusa style' review of Ubuntu 12.04? Or Debian Wheezy, or Fedora (large integer, preferably 18 because that is the version that RHEL 7 will be based on)? Or the safe and conservative CentOS/SciLi/PUIAS version 6.3, now being targeted by Oracle. Or your favourite GNU/Linux, or BS…
OK, upvotes are occurring, so what do we do?
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8403291/unityessay2.html
for an inadequate and partial outline for the 12.04/unity gui
Challenge: put your suggestions/contributions on dropbox or githib or wherever and post here and I'll attempt a synthesis.
Re: John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review
#65TL;DR "In some ways, Mountain Lion is a refinement, enhancement, and yes, a major bug-fix for Lion . But the changes and additions are significant enough that they will inevitably come with their own set of bugs. Let's not forget Snow Leopard, which promised no new features but still brought plenty of bugs in its 10.6.0 release." I hope they fixed memory management - Lion is too swap happy and slow on a decent 3Gb RA…
I am not an expert but I would guess Apple doesn't care too much about repeated memory swapping because they are trying to switch to SSDs. I have a SSD in both my personal and work computer and I have no problems with memory management.
Re: John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review
#66> But I walked my dog briefly in the middle.
Don't take the article too seriously. If you did, you probably missed the point.
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#68I just want to know if it will be easier or harder to compile ruby and python libraries with native extensions that depend on, say, libxml2.
I upgraded to Lion and it took 8 hours off of the installation process for lxml. But nokogiri was still nearly impossible.
Re: John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review
#69Am I missing an obvious single page link, or do they really want you to pay not to have to click through 25 pages?
Why yes, you are missing an obvious single page link. It's the big blue button in the Safari URL bar, labeled "Reader". :-)
Indeed and if you click the printer icon you can save it as a pdf
Re: John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review
#70Siracusa really does an outstanding job with these reviews.