AppleInsider has some more details about the latest build of Leopard and I thought I would bring forth a bit more information to those.

The feature that has been in the news the most in the last few days is the addition of ZFS support in Leopard. For those that really don’t care about filesystems (me included for the most part), should you be excited? My short answer: no. To the end user, some stuff will certainly change for the better, but it won’t be like you’ll install Leopard by formatting your Mac with ZFS and all of your worries will disappear. The addition of ZFS might enable some really cool features to be added to applications and the OS itself later (sorta like Time Machine), but for Leoarpd’s initial release, I really don’t see it being anything that exciting.

A few other notes about this latest release include update builds of Quicktime sporting the HUD-style Inspector windows (see my previous post my thoughts on this matter), updated screen saver options, more parental control options and updates to the Quick Look feature in the Finder, where you can preview files in a cute little window instead of having to open up an application to do this.

Overall, I haven’t had the change to play with any version of Leopard since I received my WWDC copy without updates, so I’m not really sure how the progress is going. Of note in the article, the author doesn’t feel like Apple will be able to deliver a production release of Leopard at MacWorld in January. This is a little disappointing, but at the same time I’d rather Apple spend the little extra time needed to deliver a stable and well-rounded product than try and rush something out the door to compete with a buggy initial release of Vista.

Found via | AppleInsider