Apple Mac Operating System OS X - code names and version numbers
Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2008-01-01 10:54:13 - Graham EllisWhich is the more recent? Panther or Jaguar? Is Tiger current or has it been replaced by Puma? If you get confused by these code names for Mac OS X versions ... here's a convenient table that may help you.
| Release | Codename | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| 10.0 | Cheetah | March 2001 |
| 10.1 | Puma | September 2001 |
| 10.2 | Jaguar | August 2002 |
| 10.3 | Panther | October 2003 |
| 10.4 | Tiger | April 2005 |
| 10.5 | Leopard | October 2007 |
| 10.6 | Snow Leopard | August 2009 |
| 10.7 | Lion | July 2011 |
| 10.8 | Mountain Lion | not yet released, 3.12 |
Mac OS X is Apple's Unix based operating system featuring a superb desktop; it's very fully featured, user friendly and GUI based ... but at the same time provides excellent access to the underlying Unix for those who require it.
We have Apple Mac computers available for your use on our Perl, Python, Tcl, Tk and Expect, MySQL and other training courses ... for you to use in place of (or in addition to) computers running Microsoft's Windows Vista or Linux. You'll find that we actually rather like the Macs - our tutor will be using one as his demonstration and projection system on most courses!
Update - Snowleopard (10.6) added to list, early 2009. It's not out yet, but said to be this quarter. Also said to be Intel only, so those of us with Powermacs are going to be abandoned!
Update - Snowleopard (10.6) release was August 2009.
Update - Lion (10.7) to be released in 2011.
Update - Lion (10.7) released July 2011.