[OS X TeX] OT: 10.5.7 issues?

[Herbert Schulz]

On May 19, 2009, at 4:47 PM, Juergen Fenn wrote:

> Searching the web for 10.5.7 issues makes me wonder whether I should
> upgrade at all. Apple discussions are full of reports and queries by
> disappointed users trying to get their system running as before again.
> Seems much worse than ever before since I switched to the Mac.
> Particularly, users complain about an issue with X11 forcing them to
> upgrade to the latest xquartz from sourceforge.
>
> Opinions?
>
> Thx,
> Jürgen.


Howdy,

Don't know about problems with X11; I just ran Gimp and it seemed to  
work ok.

The only problem I had was the the second time I would try to put the  
system to sleep it would lock up and I had to force power down and  
reboot. This was fixed by activating (even though I rarely use it) the  
Ethernet port as well as my Airport. Not a problem since then. Of  
course I consider this a bug that Apple knows about and will,  
hopefully, attend to; I shouldn't have to have the Ethernet active if  
I don't want to.

Oh... one other problem happened with Little Snitch but that software  
had been updated and the problem is fixed.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)