Just a few hours left for me (6 hours to go!).
Some of us like prasys in Malaysia already celebrated the New Year.
I’m glad to see so many visitors on my blog even for the New Year’s Eve!
Those are the real geeks :-)
Just wanted to wish everybody who visited my blog a Happy New Year!
Let’s pop the champagne!
See you in 2007 !
New package format in MacOS X 10.5 implemented by Apple.
They chose XAR.
Seems they made the decision a few months ago, but it’s finally implemented
in the last seed of MacOS X 10.5 (link)
The latest release seeded to developers has the xar tool and libxar.
Package Maker and Installer have been adapted to create and install
packages using the xar format (respectively).
Should we expect a major update of Pacifist software soon?
Interesting links:
www.opendarwin.org/projects/xar/
www.opendarwin.org/~bbraun/whyxar.html
No new functionality this time, just a bugfix build.
Be sure to check it out.
Ho ho ho … Look at those gifts Santa left us under the Christmas tree.
VMWare Fusion Beta: Download here
So VMWare released a beta to the public but even if you had the private
version, you should grab this public release, as its a completely new build!
Parallels New Beta 2: Download here
The cool stuff about this update are:
- USB 2.0 support
- Now you can burn CDs and DVDs from the virtual machine.
- Improved coherence mode
- Better Boot camp support!
- NTFS partition supported now!
- No Windows re-activation each time you switch between Boot Camp and Parallels
And many more…!
The boot camp feature is still grayed out on OSX86.
Still need to find a workaround for those GUID partitions required.
Santa Semthex just annouced on his blog that he will release the source code
of his modded 10.4.8 kernel that allows people to boot OSX86 on SSE3 and SSE2
boxes!
Be sure to check out his new blog on December the 24th!
Finally, there is a beta available from Adobe, for intel Macs.
download here
|
|
