Leopard Upgrade
So, today at about 12:30 AM Leopard was delivered.
I did all my Backup and cleaning stuff yesterday, including a disk repair from the tiger startup discs (which was necessary as some stuff fucked up). My system is fairly tweaked and customized. I use custom icons all over the place. I also have a huge Fink installation, tons of additional Frameworks i use from time to time and a couple of addons like DiscTop or Perian (add codecs to Quicktime). You get the picture. The only thing i did additionally yesterday was to grab the new version of googleDesktop, which according to Google fixed some Leopard compatibility issues. I did expect the upgrade to work fine but a few things not to work after the upgrade.
I can happily report that this upgrade was SUPER-SMOOTH. It all works. All my settings and apps and addons and so on work and are intact. That is great! Really great!
Currently Spotlight and GoogleDesktop have an indexing competition which i notice on the system’s performance.
One thing to remember is that you may not see the quicklook icon in your Finder’s toolbar. If that is the case customize the toolbar and drop the icon where you want it.
Not at all revolutionary but nicely done and integrated in the whole mac desktop experience is Spaces. I already got so used to it that i cannot imagine working without it. It blends completely in.
Next station: Dev Tool installation