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Mac OS X 10.6.3 Released

43 points by kvs 17y ago

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chris24 17y ago
10.6.1 was 71MB, 10.6.2 was 473MB, and 10.6.3 is.. > 700MB? Has an Apple update ever been that large?
- frou_dh 17y ago
  Perhaps there are drivers for video cards old and new crammed in to there to facilitate the new OpenGL 3.0 support.
- invisible 17y ago
  To be fair, the 10.6.3 update is actually ~437MB via Software Update. The Combo update includes all past updates (1.6.1 and 1.6.2).
schammy 17y ago
Mind. Blown.
- Sam_Odio 17y ago
  Why? I don't mean to be snarky. I don't actually understand why this is a "mind blowing" release (other than the fact that it was released by Apple).
  - noarchy 17y ago
    The sheer size of this update gets me. 10.6.2 ran just fine for me, and I haven't noticed a thing since I installed today's update.
jleyank 17y ago
FWIW, X11 has been upgraded to a newer xquartz version, restoring 16-bit accumulation buffers.
- duskwuff 17y ago
  ... but if you really care about X11 support, you should probably be using the XQuartz releases anyway (http://xquartz.macosforge.org/ http://xquartz.macosforge.org/). They're still "official", just not guaranteed to be as stable as OS updates.
joshu 17y ago
When will they release TRIM support? I am sad.
- blasdel 17y ago
  Maybe when it actually boosts real world benchmarks. Maybe once drives start shipping with it enabled, so you suffer a massive performance degradation without TRIM being called by the OS (since the firmware isn't collecting its own garbage). Maybe once Intel can ramp up their production enough to take OEM customers for their SSDs and it can really go mainstream.
bdwalter 17y ago
Installed just fine for me, although I see zero evidence of it actually doing anything for me.
thwarted 17y ago
There are reports of 10.6.3 causing problems with MacFusion/sshfs, so if you rely on MacFuse to access files remotely, take caution. References: http://groups.google.com/group/macfusion-devel/browse_thread/thread/7a1a111327b03d06/379eca24c017d8a5 http://groups.google.com/group/macfusion-devel/browse_thread... , and a guy in my office who sent an email out after his 10.6.3 upgrade was useless for him.
- pak 17y ago
  Yep, this issue bit me. There's no real fix, but to keep sshfs working you can grab the Leopard static binary: http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/wiki/MACFUSE_FS_SSHFS http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/wiki/MACFUSE_FS_SSHFS and mount your volumes from the command line. This has happened before; I wish MacFusion weren't so fragile.
sashthebash 17y ago
I wish Apple silently included support for new MBPs and will release those things soon. Getting really tired of waiting for new ones.

43 points by kvs 17y ago

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chris24 17y ago

10.6.1 was 71MB, 10.6.2 was 473MB, and 10.6.3 is.. > 700MB? Has an Apple update ever been that large?

frou_dh 17y ago
Perhaps there are drivers for video cards old and new crammed in to there to facilitate the new OpenGL 3.0 support.
invisible 17y ago
To be fair, the 10.6.3 update is actually ~437MB via Software Update. The Combo update includes all past updates (1.6.1 and 1.6.2).

schammy 17y ago

Mind. Blown.

Sam_Odio 17y ago
Why? I don't mean to be snarky. I don't actually understand why this is a "mind blowing" release (other than the fact that it was released by Apple).
- noarchy 17y ago
  The sheer size of this update gets me. 10.6.2 ran just fine for me, and I haven't noticed a thing since I installed today's update.

jleyank 17y ago

FWIW, X11 has been upgraded to a newer xquartz version, restoring 16-bit accumulation buffers.

duskwuff 17y ago
... but if you really care about X11 support, you should probably be using the XQuartz releases anyway (http://xquartz.macosforge.org/ http://xquartz.macosforge.org/). They're still "official", just not guaranteed to be as stable as OS updates.

joshu 17y ago

When will they release TRIM support? I am sad.

blasdel 17y ago
Maybe when it actually boosts real world benchmarks. Maybe once drives start shipping with it enabled, so you suffer a massive performance degradation without TRIM being called by the OS (since the firmware isn't collecting its own garbage). Maybe once Intel can ramp up their production enough to take OEM customers for their SSDs and it can really go mainstream.

bdwalter 17y ago

Installed just fine for me, although I see zero evidence of it actually doing anything for me.

thwarted 17y ago

There are reports of 10.6.3 causing problems with MacFusion/sshfs, so if you rely on MacFuse to access files remotely, take caution. References: http://groups.google.com/group/macfusion-devel/browse_thread/thread/7a1a111327b03d06/379eca24c017d8a5 http://groups.google.com/group/macfusion-devel/browse_thread... , and a guy in my office who sent an email out after his 10.6.3 upgrade was useless for him.

pak 17y ago
Yep, this issue bit me. There's no real fix, but to keep sshfs working you can grab the Leopard static binary: http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/wiki/MACFUSE_FS_SSHFS http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/wiki/MACFUSE_FS_SSHFS and mount your volumes from the command line. This has happened before; I wish MacFusion weren't so fragile.

sashthebash 17y ago

I wish Apple silently included support for new MBPs and will release those things soon. Getting really tired of waiting for new ones.