Leopard’s teething troubles

by Brad Grier on November 16, 2007

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The Mac Mini woes continue. We'd recently taken advantage of Apple's UpToDate program to order OSX Leopard. It arrived last week, and installation ensured.

And it looked great once it was complete! But, the kicker was, it wouldn't recognize our Windows shares, or NFS shares, or Samba shares. Seems this is a known issue so, off went Leopard, back on went Tiger.

We're happy again, and won't install Leopard until many of the issues are dealt with. And speaking of issues, there's a cross-platform issues page at macwindows.com, and an excellent list of Leopard 3rd party issues posted over at BioNeural.Net:

[X] Google Earth 4.0
[X] Parallels Desktop 2.5 (free update announced)
[X] Skype 2.7.0.49 (beta)

The full list is here.

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{ 3 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Junelle November 23, 2007 at 6:14 am

My friend has heard about the troubles before she could trans­fer to Leo­pard. She was glad she hasn’t. She’s lov­ing her tiger :)

I am still wait­ing for my mac­book … I have been excited about it since last month.

2 Brad Grier November 25, 2007 at 9:39 pm

Hi Jun­elle,
Thanks for the com­ment! Yeah, my wife and I were really not impressed that Leo­pard really couldn’t find our stuff. Sure, we run mostly Win­dows based machines, but my main file and print server is a Ubuntu (Linux) machine, which ‘any­thing’ should be able to find.

Ah well, we’ll wait for the next revi­sion and see if that’s bet­ter. In the mean­time, Christ­mas is com­ing, and there will be little time for toy­ing with a recal­cit­rant oper­at­ing sys­tem :)

3 Ranger Bob December 19, 2007 at 6:14 pm

Brad,

SP3 for Winders (Release Can­did­ate 1) was announced today, and I found some­thing to delay buy­ing a Mac. Win­dows Vista theme for XP.. without the bloatware.

More on my web­site here:

http://ranger-bob.net/?p=869

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