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Reviews:

• MacCentral: Macworld Review: Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar.
• Inside Mac Games: A Look at Mac OS X 10.2.
• David Coursey: Why you should buy the new Mac OS X — now. Tops on my “Why buy Jaguar?” list is an improved Apple Mail e-mail client that includes the best spam filtering I’ve come across so far.
• PowerPage: Jaguar Preparedness Kit.
• PC Magazine: Apple Ups the Ante with Wide-screen iMac, Jaguar OS.
• David Pogue: Mac OS 10.2 Reviewed. (NYT link; free registration required)
• Walter Mossberg: Apple’s Wider iMac Screen, Jaguar System Are Big Steps.
• Glenn Fleishman: Jaguar Review.
• Glenn Fleishman: Jaguar: New Mac operating system a well-stuffed breed.

Hands-on reports:

• MacInTouch: Mac OS X Reader Reports: Jaguar.
• Michael Alderete: Upgrading to Jaguar, Install Options, What Gets Archived, Post-Install Setup, Post-Install UNIX Setup.
• Pioneer Press: Jaguar Journal: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6, Day 7, Day 8.
• AppleLust: Installing Jaguar, The New Finder, System Preferences in OS X 10.2, Mail and Address Book Reborn, Introducing iChat, InkWell and Quartz Extreme.
• Tim Jarrett: Jaguar First Impressions.
• SpeckledPaint.org: I installed Jaguar successfully…
• Gregory Blake: Spam thoughts. I’m experimenting with the new spam filtering features in Jaguar.
• Jake Savin: Jaguar is fast but…
• James Spahr: The most impressive aspect of Jaguar is printer sharing.
• Iain Croll: Is now a bad time to tell him I have been using it for ages? No, now is the perfect time to tell him. Go ahead. Rub it in.
• Jeremiah Rogers: Up running Jaguar since last night…
• Think Secret: Inside iCal: a visual preview. And Inside iCal: part 2.
• MacSlash: Jaguar First Impressions?
• Steve Jenson: Being somebody who’s both 1) stupid and 2) fearless, I upgraded to Jaguar today.
• Bill Bumgarner: Cool New 10.2 ScreenShot Feature.

Hard-core geek stuff:

• O’Reilly MacDevCenter: Setting up a Site Server with Jaguar.
• MacSlash: UNIX changes between 10.1.5 and 10.2.
• Mac OS X Hints: Compiling MySQL under 10.2. MySQL binaries are also available.
• Mac OS X Hints: Run the screensaver from the Finder [10.2] Headline worded poorly, but this means making a screensaver run in the root window, behind your other windows. Like an active desktop wallpaper. Desktop Effects is a GUI for controlling this.
• Mac OS X Hints: Specifying mount points in 10.2. Unix-style (in /etc/fstab).
• Mac OS X Hints: Adding keyboard scripts in 10.2.
• Mac OS X Hints: Running ProFTPD on 10.2.
• Mac OS X Hints: CUPS printing hints on Jaguar. Possible ways to print to unsupported printers.
• Bluetooth-Mac mailing list. Mac OS X 10.2 includes Bluetooth support preinstalled.
• Apple Developer: What version of Java is included on Mac OS X? Mac OS X 10.2 includes JDK 1.3.1_04 preinstalled.
• Apple Knowledge Base: Mac OS X Server Administration Guide: Manual. Downloadable as PDF.

Classic:

• Mac OS X 10.2: Classic Requires That You Already Have Mac OS 9. This is important, since Mac OS X 10.2 does not include Mac OS 9.
• Mac OS X 10.2: Some Users Can Not See Classic.
• Mac OS X 10.2: Classic Cannot Connect or Print via AppleTalk After Sleep.
• Mac OS X 10.2: Some Classic Components Are Later Than Mac OS 9.2.2.
• Mac OS X 10.2: A Classic Window (or the Display) Appears White or Black when Using Zoom.
• Mac OS X 10.2: Taking Screen Shots of Classic Environment Windows.
• Mac OS X 10.2: Classic Application Loses Sound After Sleep.
• Mac OS X: Classic System Folder Does Not Work With Earlier Versions of Mac OS X After 10.2 Update.

Apache:

• Mac OS X Server 10.2: About Apache 2. Mac OS X Server 10.2 includes Apache 2 (v 2.0.36) for evaluation purposes.
• Mac OS X Server 10.2: Editing Apache Configuration Files.
• Mac OS X Server 10.2: Starting and Stopping Web Service With the apachectl Script.
• Mac OS X Server 10.2: Creating Indexes for Searching Web Site Content.
• Mac OS X 10.2: inetd Replaced by xinetd.

Printing:

• Mac OS X 10.2: Included Ink Jet Printer Drivers.
• Mac OS X 10.2: Included PPDs and Use of PostScript Printers.
• Mac OS X 10.2: How to Modify the Print Center Print Queue. Mac OS X 10.2 introduces the ability to change existing print queues. This was a personal pet peeve of mine in 10.1.
• Mac OS X 10.2: Can See Shared Printer But Cannot Print to It. Hey look, we have printer sharing on client now.
• Mac OS X 10.2: Network Printers Do Not Appear in Printer List After Upgrade. You need to re-add them manually.
• Mac OS X Server 10.2: New Print Queues Not Enabled by Default.
• Mac OS X Server 10.2: Print Job Goes to Wrong Queue.

Software updates:

• Mozilla. Latest nightly builds fix Java problems under 10.2.
• DragThing 4.3.1.
• Retrospect 5.0.536.
• GraphicConverter 4.4.4.
• Super Get Info 1.0.9.
• Audion 3.0.2.
• OmniDictionary 2.0.3.
• FaXstf.
• USB Overdrive X (beta).
• WebObjects 5.1.4 (for Server)
• Quicktime Streaming Server (for Server)
• Oracle 9i (for Server)
• Apple Security Update 8/23/2002 for 10.2 (sigh)
• Apple Remote Desktop 1.1 (via Software Update only)
• Third-Party Menu Bar Items Do Not Work with 10.2 until updated.
• Third-party Jaguar 10.2 incompatibilities.

Press:

• Apple: Jaguar Unleashed at 10:20 PM Tonight. Er, last night. Mac OS X v10.2 Jaguar Family Pack is a single residence, five-user license package … for a suggested retail price of $199.
• MacCentral: Jaguar launch events pack retail stores.
• PowerPage: Jaguar Event an Unprecedented Hit.
• OS News: Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar is Out; Festivity in Palo Alto a Success. With pictures. Of Steve.
• Computer User: Mac at the Crossroads. OS X 10.2 … includes a VPN client capable of connecting to Microsoft VPN servers.
• Boston Globe: Apple’s Mac muscles in.
• The Age: X marks the spots.

Other fun stuff:

• Joy of Tech: Jaguar Genius Pizza.
• Joy of Tech: Jaguar release party (cartoon). Gosh, I’m sorry, but you’re not invited.
• Mac Surf Shop: Jaguar t-shirt. Cat got your tongue?
• Victoria’s Secret: Leopard skin bra.
• Think Secret: Mac OS X 10.3 code-named Panther.

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