11:03 AM - Mac OS X (10.5) Leopard
My copy came via Fedex. I've been a little leery of this release as I've been running a version at work. (developer seed) Apple fixed my big two complaints with the system. The menu bar at the top is not uber transparent on this old PowerMac. That was really bothering me. The dock has been fixed when it's on the side not to use the hideous floor theme.
However, there are some issues. The firewall is off by default. It is no longer located in sharing, but rather security. They got rid of the convenient check boxes for common services. Instead you have to do it manually. What's worse, when it's enabled for "deny by default", ipfw show still shows allow any .... if I turn on stealth mode it just blocks some types of ICMP! Allow is still on.
% sudo ipfw show
33300 0 0 deny icmp from any to me in icmptypes 8
65535 490 46714 allow ip from any to any
Next, software update is failing. Someone at apple forgot to put the index up on their webserver! It's launch day! Granted I got it early.
The wizard setup .Mac fresh on my system even though I had it configured previously. Spotlight has to create a fresh index which takes some time. Safari feels slow and bulky compared to betas, but it is a little more stable.
I'm not fond of the new login screen background. .Mac syncing is better and I do like spaces.
Spotlight is now reporting 7 hours for indexing! I have a 160GB ide drive in this PowerMac G4. I have 1.75 GB of RAM!
I know I have an old mac, but this is very sad.