[HN Gopher] Are you ready for 13.3 or 9.1? ___________________________________________________________________ Are you ready for 13.3 or 9.1? Author : rcarmo Score : 34 points Date : 2023-03-26 11:53 UTC (11 hours ago) (HTM) web link (eclecticlight.co) (TXT) w3m dump (eclecticlight.co) | mproud wrote: | I'm a little confused. The article seems to walk through | reinstalling Mac OS 9.1, or performing an erase and install. And | this sounds like upgrading as opposed to updating. | | _Upgrading_ is going from one major version to the next. There | is a higher risk of failure when doing so. | | _Updating_ is increasing the minor version, including bug fixes | and small patches. | | I am sure I was one of those people who upgraded their machine | from 9.0.3 or 9.0.4 to 9.1, and I do not remember batting an eye | doing so. By this time, updates were readily available via the | Internet -- this should have been a fairly straightforward | process, without the need for CDs or multiple hard drives. | 2h wrote: | > Upgrading is going from one major version to the next. | | > Updating is increasing the minor version, including bug fixes | and small patches. | | I dont agree with this at all. You could swap the two words and | still have a cogent paragraph. what reference do you have for | these terms? | qup wrote: | Somebody let the apt maintainers know they've got it wrong | 2h wrote: | Right because the English language is maintained by the | _apt maintainers_ | CharlesW wrote: | For anyone else who's confused because of how it's presented, | this is a 2001 article about upgrading to Mac OS 9.1, with a | short intro above the first "What it does" subhead. | starmftronajoll wrote: | This is a 2023 article walking through the process for | installing Mac OS 9.1, as a point of comparison to modern day | macOS updates. | LegionMammal978 wrote: | At the end: | | > Reformatted from the original, first published in MacUser | volume 17 issue 10, 2001. | | Everything but the intro looks like it came directly from the | original. | diebeforei485 wrote: | > In the next day or three, Apple is expected to release the | update to bring macOS Ventura to version 13.3. | | Is there a new update process expected for 13.3 ? | nsxwolf wrote: | I don't understand what this article is trying to say at all. | Why did it bring Ventura into it? | macintux wrote: | I thought it was a reminder of how far we've come. That long, | highly technical upgrade process has now been more or less | consolidated to a single mouse click. | pridkett wrote: | No. The point of the article, as I understand it, is to show | how much easier upgrading OS versions has become. OS upgrades | used to be rare and slow, because you needed to buy the CD. You | used to need to make sure everything was backed up, or in this | case, have multiple drives or partitions, because the processes | often went wrong. | | Now it seems like these upgrades just happen when we sleep and | people want them on day 1. And they're much easier. | 404mm wrote: | No, it's just a regular minor release. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-03-26 23:00 UTC)