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Fri, 30 Aug 2002
A week with 10.2
Here are some of my experiences & observations, both good and bad, after a week with Jaguar as my primary OS.
One week ago, I installed 10.2 as the main OS on the machine I use daily, a G4/500/AGP minitower. I did an "Archive & Install" without preserving settings and manually restored the contents of my home folder & my applications. I also reinstalled Kensington MouseWorks & Default Folder 1.6, two of the utilities I consider essential.
I immediately noticed much better overall performance.
The first problem I noticed is that DragThing 4.3.1 quits when launched at startup, although I can launch it manually without a crash. I reported this to the author, who told me he found & fixed the problem and will release an update soon.
The real trouble started after installing FaxSTF 10.0.8. Print Center now crashes when I click Add Printer. Even after removing all parts of FaxSTF, the problem still occurs.
On the plus side, I really like the new address book, Mail, and iChat. Mail.app is the first really good IMAP implementation I've seen - Eudora's IMAP implementation is pretty awful and Entourage is slightly better. With Mail I can easily access my mail from either my G4 or my iBook.
Printer sharing is wonderful - I can now print wirelessly from my iBook to the Canon S600 connected to my G4.
I found that I had to re-create all of my projects when I switched to the new version of ProjectBuilder. My old projects gave link errors for standard C++ library functions such as dynamic_cast even though all of the proper libraries were included. Creating a new project and adding all of the same source files, libraries, & frameworks, and entering all of the same settings fixed the problem.
Overall, I find it a very nice upgrade with some really useful features, however it's much less stable than 10.1.5.