Friday, October 26, 2007

Things That Work in Leopard (OS X 10.5)

Installed Leopard on a spare internal HD on my Mac Pro (2 x 2.66 GHz Dual Core with 5 GB of RAM)

Here’s what works:

Growl (1.1.1)
Twitteriffic (2.1)
TextMate (1.5.6)
Server Admin (10.4.7)
Workgroup Manager (10.4.4)
Linotype Font Explorer (1.2.2)
Quicksilver (this would have been a deal breaker had it NOT worked) (B52 3813)
CS (photoshop and Illustrator), but they complain loudly that they are missing stuff
Office (old version, too v.X)
Coda (1.0.2)
CSSEdit (2.6)
TextExpander (2.0.2)
Adium (though it won’t let me log on via AIM, which is odd) (1.1.3)
iWork ‘06 (Both Keynote and Pages work fine)
Camino (1.5.1)
Firefox (2.0.0.7) (I haven’t tested any plug-ins, but I’m assuming most would be OK?)
iPhoto 6 (6.0.6)
LittleSnitch (1.2.4) (though things are coming up “kernal_task” instead of an app like “Mail")
CyberDuck (2.6.6)
Colloquy (2.1)

Here’s what does NOT work:

CS2 from my old drive
CS3 from my old drive
CS InDesign
Jon from blurbomat and I could NOT get iChat screen sharing to work. AT ALL. Much lameness. We are both on AIM. Maybe screen sharing is only a “local” thing?
Managed Accounts from OS X Server (10.4) aren’t working. I don’t get a prompt to make a mobile account. This is stinky on many levels for me. Hopefully, once I get my servers updated to Leopard Server, all will be well again.
Apple Remote Desktop (3) Says I have to update the client software. Won’t even let me serialize the program. Will try software update. This is “grumpify-ing” as well. Update: I updated the Remote Desktop software to 3.2 (after a fresh install) and now it’s happy.

CS3 is a bit of a special case. It HATES, and I mean LOATHES, to not be on boot drive. Adobe spews all kinds of crap EVERYWHERE on your hard drive in every little nook and cranny. I’ll try re-installing CS3 and I am pretty confident it will work.

I hate the default icon set.

The new Mail is pretty awesome. iCal might not be the lamest thing ever, though I’m withholding judgment until I play with iCal Server in Leopard Server.

Here are the User-Agent Strings for Safari on Leopard for the truly dorky:

[26/Oct/2007] “GET /rntlogo.jpg HTTP/1.1” 304 - “http://ransom-note-typography.com/” “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/523.10.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.4 Safari/523.10”

Jon (blurbomat Jon, not me Jon) has a much more interesting “first look” here.

UPDATE: Re-installing CS3 on the Leopard boot volume did the trick. It’s fine now.

Posted by Jon on 10/26/07 at 11:34 AM

  1. How did you manage to get married?

    Hahaha, I kid, I kid.  Geeks are hot.

    Posted by kerflop  on  10/27/07  at  11:01 AM

  2. It sounds like most of what I have should work just fine after the upgrade.  I’m going to wait a week both to see that everything goes smoothly for people and to by it right after payday instead of right before. 

    It sounds like there might be some issues with Disk Warrior.

    http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20071026153956503

    Posted by michael  on  10/27/07  at  11:34 AM
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