OSXi is coming?


When Apple posted the Airport firmware update yesterday, it was as a Universal Binary

Now forgive me if I'm wrong here (and please do correct me) but is this the first time we've seen any publicly posted code from Apple as a universal binary?

Is this important and if so, why?
Yes, it's important. One of the changes between Intel 10.4.1 and 10.4.3 was some kernel threading structures changed, thus making most 10.4.1 Intel binaries incompatible. Lots of people put this down to Apple 'locking out' old binaries. Nonsense, this is just normal development.

Apple are now sufficiently confident to post binaries meaning they are happy the OS is at least as stable as far as core structures go, and, maybe, even happy the OS is final.

Taking that line a little further, maybe they've been forced to post the updater because the OS has already been pressed and installed on machines?

Or maybe they just mandated that everything from a certain date would be posted as a universal binary?

I don't know, but it's very probably the strongest indicator yet that Intel machines are just days away...

Oh, and did notice it was a security update? This lends a little more credence in my mind that the OS is already installed on machines.

Posted: Thu - January 5, 2006 at 11:19 PM          

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