Mac OS X v10.2
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A screenshot of Mac OS X v10.2 "Jaguar".
Mac OS X version 10.2 "Jaguar" was the third major release of Apple Computer's Mac OS X operating system. It followed Mac OS X v10.1 "Puma" and preceded Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther."
It was released on August 23 2002.
Features
- Increased support for Microsoft Windows networks
- Quartz Extreme for compositing graphics directly on the video card
- An adaptive spam mail filter
- A system-wide repository for contact information in the new Apple Address Book
- Rendezvous (now called Bonjour) networking
- iChat, an Apple-branded, officially-supported third party AOL Instant Messenger client
- A revamped Finder with searching built directly into every window
- Dozens of new Apple Universal Access features
- Sherlock 3: Web services (See Watson)
- Increased speed across the entire system
Version history
- Mac OS X v10.2.0 (build 6C115), released August 23 2002 (retail)
- Mac OS X v10.2.1 (build 6D52), released September 18 2002 (Apple: About the Mac OS X 10.2.1 Update (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107036))
- Mac OS X v10.2.2 (build 6F21), released November 11 2002 (Apple: About the Mac OS X 10.2.2 Update (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107140))
- Mac OS X v10.2.3 (build 6G30), released December 19 2002 (Apple: About the Mac OS X 10.2.3 Update (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107263))
- Mac OS X v10.2.4 (build 6I32), released February 13 2003 (Apple: About the Mac OS X 10.2.4 Update (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107362))
- Mac OS X v10.2.5 (build 6L29), released April 10 2003 (Apple: About the Mac OS X 10.2.5 Update (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25405))
- Mac OS X v10.2.6 (build 6L60), released May 6 2003 (Apple Download Page (http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/macosxupdate_10_2_6.html))
- Mac OS X v10.2.8 (build 6R65), released September 22 2003 (Apple: About the Mac OS X 10.2.8 Update (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25524))
- Mac OS X v10.2.8 (build 6R73), released October 3 2003 (Apple: About the Mac OS X 10.2.8 (G5) Update (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25576); Apple Download Page (http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/macosxupdate_10_2_8.html))
Mac OS X v10.2.7 was only available to the new Power Mac G5s and aluminum PowerBook G4s released before Mac OS X v10.3. Officially, it was never released to the general public.
Mac OS X v10.2.8 is the last version of Mac OS X supported on the "beige G3" desktop and minitower systems.
Also, the famous Happy Mac that had served Mac users for almost 18 years was replaced with a large grey Apple logo with the introduction of Mac OS X 10.2.
External links
- Apple: Mac OS X 10.2: Chart of available Mac OS software updates (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75421)
- Ars Technica: Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar (http://www.arstechnica.com/reviews/02q3/macosx-10.2/macosx-10.2-1.html)