Paul, >Surely 'Jaguar' is just the internal Apple code name for 10.2 that has >found favour with the public, like 'Rhapsody' was the codename for the >'new' OS that never made it years ago, and which OS X actually is? > >The way I see it, the latest version is OS X10.2.2, also called by some >'Jaguar'.
I think the logic behind the naming is this: Apple's new, totally built from the ground up Operating System built on a foundation of BSD Unix is called OSX....to distinguish it from previous versions of the OS called Mac OS. After that comes the version number, such as 10.1, 10.2 which are major upgrades of the new system. The numbers after the basic system upgrade are smaller, incremental updates to that build, such as 10.1.5 and 10.2.1 . So the most recently released (week-old) official version of the operating system called OSX is OSX 10.2.2. While it is true that Jaguar started out as the internal code name for the OSX 10.2 system upgrade somebody in Apple's advertising/marketing dept must have latched on to it, as Apple itself promotes the use of the unofficial name Jaguar - going so far as to sell the upgrade in a box with a jaguar-spotted OSX logo on the cover. This wasn't the case for previous in-house names for different projects and builds of the OS. Cheers, Nina =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
