I have upgraded to Leopard on two laptops and the iMac is running. Sabrina’s Powerbook was upgraded and my MacBook Pro got a clean install (on a great big new hard drive).
Initially Leopard didn’t detect the hard drive in the iMac, but on the second try it worked fine. Other than that there haven’t been any hiccups.
As I find interesting things about Leopard I am pasting them into the list below. Some are for the serious geek while others are for the casual user.
- Updating /etc/hosts in OS X used to either require flushing the DNS cache or going into NetInfo. Now, open /etc/hosts in vi, change the entry, save. That is just as easy as in Linux now.
- Speaking of vi, the vim that comes with Leopard doesn’t use ESC to get to the vi command prompt. I was stuck and couldn’t figure out how the hell to write quit from INSERT mode. In desperation I tried CTRL+C (which typically throws an error telling you how to quit vi correctly). I was pretty surprised when CTRL+C took me straight to the vi command prompt. I am going to have to figure out how to remap ESC.
- The “sharing” preference has been greatly simplified. Internet connection sharing used to be a little hard to find, now it is right there. I bet they make it less obvious (or cripple it) when the iPhone goes 3G.
