Mac OS X v10.6

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Mac OS X v10.6 "Snow Leopard"
(Part of the Mac OS X family)
Developer
Apple Inc.
Web site: apple.com/macosx/snowleopard/
Release information
Support status
Private Beta for Registered Developers

Mac OS X version 10.6 “Snow Leopard” is an Apple operating system currently in development that is planned to succeed version 10.5 "Leopard". Announced briefly by Apple CEO Steve Jobs at WWDC on June 9, 2008, the software is scheduled to ship "about a year" after the announcement.[1]

The new system will not focus on new end-user features, but rather on improving performance, efficiency and reducing its overall footprint.[1] A developer preview has been seeded to developers.[1]

Changes and improvements

Apple has stated that Mac OS X Snow Leopard will include the following changes and improvements:

  • Support for connecting to Microsoft Exchange 2007 servers will be included in Address Book, Mail, and iCal.[2]
  • Faster installation times and smaller hard drive footprint.[3]
  • Support for up to a theoretical 16TB RAM[2] by further developing 64-bit kernel technologies.[4]
  • Grand Central: a parallel-programming technology[5] that aims to have the OS take greater advantage of multi-core CPUs.[2]
  • QuickTime X which will feature optimized support for modern codecs.[2]
  • OpenCL (Open Computing Language): allowing developers to code applications to use the GPU for non-graphics purposes.[2]
  • A 64-bit kernel which provides a complete 64-bit environment for applications, along with 32-bit support for older Macs. This completes a long running attempt by Apple to completely unify their products in 64-bit capabilities, harking back to Apple's original adoption of the PowerPC in 1994 which was planned to become natively 64-bit with the PowerPC G5 and slowly built into OS X starting with OS X 10.3. [6]

Also, leaked release notes indicate that the Finder will be rewritten in Apple's Cocoa API.[7]

The next version of Mac OS X Server will include all of these features and other server-related features. Apple also states that they will include ZFS write support [4], but current documentation indicates that ZFS write support does not currently exist in the latest seed (build).

References

  1. ^ a b c Apple Inc. (2008-06-09). "Apple Previews Mac OS X Snow Leopard to Developers". Press release. Retrieved on 2008-06-11.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Mac OS X Snow Leopard". Apple.com. Retrieved on 2008-06-11.
  3. ^ "OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard Preview". testmac.net. Retrieved on 2008-06-30.
  4. ^ a b "Mac OS X Server Snow Leopard". Apple.com. Retrieved on 2008-06-11.
  5. ^ Markoff, John (2008-06-10). "Apple in Parallel: Turning the PC World Upside Down?", Bits, New York Times. Retrieved on 11 June 2008. 
  6. ^ McLean, Prince (2008-08-26). "Road to Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard: 64-bit", Bits, AppleInsider. Retrieved on 26 August 2008. 
  7. ^ "Latest Snow Leopard Build (10A190) Now Available [Seed Notes]", World of Apple (2008-10-25). 

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