My Snow Leopard disc arrived today via FedEx, and I quickly popped in the DVD and began the installation. In an hour's time, 10.6 was installed and ready to go, and my free disk space went from 97 GB to 123 GB. Thank you Apple for the extra space!
I use Python a lot, about daily for the past month or so. I was happy to see that Python was upgraded from 2.5 to 2.6. However, my add-on modules were gone! It wasn't a big deal, I just had to reinstall Django and BeautifulSoup (an awesome HTML/XML parser).
Next, I found that the MSN Messenger app (I only use if for the Office Communicator feature, which, sadly, Adium/Pidgin does not support) takes a lot longer to load, but now, I don't get disconnected from my company's chat server every 30 minutes. Nambu, my preferred Twitter app doesn't work, but the creators say an update is due out Any Time Now.
But CheckPoint's VPN software, SecureClient VPN-1, does not work at all. And sadly, knowing them, the Snow Leopard version will be stuck in "private beta" for eons before they finally get around to releasing it. Seriously though, Apple seeds iterations of their new operating systems to developers all the time, so there's no reason why the larger tech companies shouldn't be ready with Snow Leopard-ready versions of their software the day the new operating system comes out. Isn't not like they didn't know that OS X 10.6 was coming out today. Do they just not care, or do they figure that no one would care to get it on Day One? Or what?
As I poke around I'll add more things, if needed. One thing was that my favourite screen saver doesn't work with 10.6, and the System Preferences app had to restart (in "32-bit mode") to open the MySQL PrefPane. And, PPC apps don't work, as Rosetta is no longer installed, but its on the DVD in the Optional Installs folder. For the most part, I don't see a reason to hold back, lets all jump on the installation bandwagon and get going with Snow Leopard, because that's what Apple so desperately wants.
Now, about OS X 10.6, something doesn't seem right. I don't mean with the functionality or with any problems I may have had (no problems worth mentioning... ok, ok, none at all!). But why did Apple release Mac OS X 10.6 for so cheap with so much fanfare with so little noticeable changes? All the rewritten Finder in Cocoa could have been in a huge system update to 10.5.9 or 10.5.10. Or, does Snow Leopard signal a hardware change, like PPC-> Intel, meaning we're at 32-bit -> 64-bit? Could Apple have something up their sleeves? Maybe there are noticeable changes that I haven't yet noticed, that's possible.
