All Leoparded Up
Posted by rmp at 23:54 28th Mar 2008
Hurray! I managed to snag an OSX 10.5 installation disk today and took the opportunity to upgrade my 10.3.9 PPC Powerbook and skip 10.4 Tiger completely. Apparently this was a bit of a feat to perform at Sanger where 10.5 has hitherto been unsupported.
In the "Rails Club" meeting in preparation for Dave Black's Rails course next week it was pretty obvious that Leopard will spread quickly now those other unspeakable Mac users know it's out in the wild.
So the installation took about an hour and a half wallclock time, or about 30 minutes Microsoft time - too many bars with "1 minute remaining" for ten minutes. It all went pretty smoothly though I did opt for a full install rather than an upgrade. Unfortunately I've had to spend the best part of the last 6 hours installing DarwinPorts, gem updating to Rails 2 and reinstalling the long-awaiting 10.5 versions of all my favourite apps - AquaMacs, Adium, CotVNC, VLC, Camino, Skype, Colloquy, Firefox and a few others. Plus of course setting it all up just the way I like it.
Initial impressions are that it's rather shiny and pleasant to use - I like Spaces & Dashboard (don't forget that wasn't in my old 10.3) and overall the setup definitely seems faster - surprisingly noticable when compiling and installing things from CPAN. Can't wait to try out Time Machine over the weekend!
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