Ars Technicas John Siracusa has posted his writeup on Tiger. I havent had time to read all of it yet, but the first half is an amazing piece of work. Theres a ton of content in there that is entirely new to me, like the writeup on launchd
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Apples new open-source daemon-launching code. As usual, he goes to
great lengths tracking down all of the metadata changes in Tiger, and
for once he likes what he sees, although theres still a lot of work
left to do in 10.5. This is a really technical guide to what has
changed under the hood in Tiger; its not a the shortcut for doing Foo
in the Finder changed; Apple Sucks sort of write-up.
One thing that Im wondering that I havent seen anyone address: if
Apple is currently on a 18-month OS X release cycle, and 10.4 is out in
April 2005, then the next release will be in October 2006, or slightly before Longhorns current release timeframe (before Christmas 2006). This should be fun.
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