SillyDog701

[Antony]

Apple released Mac OS X 10.4.9, an update to its Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" operating system that is recommended for all users.

The 10.4.9 Update is recommended for all users and includes general operating system fixes, as well as specific fixes for the following applications and technologies:

- RAW camera support
- Handling of large or malformed images that could cause crashes
- Image capture performance
- Mouse scrolling and keyboard shortcuts
- Font handling
- Playback quality, and bookmarks in DVD Player
- USB video conferencing cameras for use with iChat
- Bluetooth devices
- Browsing AFP servers
- Apple USB Modem
- Windows-created digital certificates
- Open and Print dialogs in applications that use Rosetta on Intel-based Macs
- Time zone and daylight saving for 2006 and 2007
- Security updates

For more information and to download the update,
Mac OS X 10.4.9 for PPC (72 MB) (Combo: 163 MB)
Mac OS X 10.4.9 for Intel (160 MB) (Combo: 310 MB)

Mac OS X 10.4.9 Server

Apple also relased Security Update 2007-003 for Mac OS X 10.3.9.

Previously, Mac OS X 10.4.8 update was released on 30 September 2006.

For detailed information on this Update, please visit this website: http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n304821.

For detailed information on Security Updates, please visit this website: http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n61798.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2

[Antony]

[sdt=13042]Unlike Firefox[/sdt], Mac OS X checks for updates, and asks you if you want to install the updates. That is the default setting in Mac OS X.



I was being asked if I want to download and install the update or not. Not the case of only being informed after the update has been stealthily downloaded, and was forced to install the update at next relaunch.


This is the preferences panel of Software Update:


Mac OS X users may choose to let the system download the update at background without informing you first, but users have to change the settings to that. Mac OS X does not force users to update, [sdt=13042]unlike Firefox[/sdt]. Users authorised Mac OS X to download system updates in the background by changing the default settings.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2