Mac OS X version 10.2 Jaguar, is the third major release of Apple Inc.'s operating system Mac OS X after Mac OS X 10.1 (Puma) and before Mac OS X 10.3.
Features[]
- Increased support for Microsoft Windows networks
- Quartz Extreme for compositing graphics directly on the video card
- An adaptive spam mail filter
- A system-wide repository for contact information in the new Address Book
- Rendezvous networking
- iChat, an Apple-branded, officially-supported third party AOL Instant Messenger client
- A revamped Finder with searching built directly into every window
- Dozens of new Universal Access features
- Sherlock 3: Web services
- Increased speed across the entire system
Version history[]
- November 11, 2002: Mac OS X 10.2.2
- December 19, 2002: Mac OS X 10.2.3
- February 13, 2003: Mac OS X 10.2.4
- April 10, 2003: Mac OS X 10.2.5
- May 6, 2003: Mac OS X 10.2.6
- September 22, 2003: Mac OS X 10.2.7
- October 3, 2003: Mac OS X 10.2.8 (builds 6R73 and 6S90)
Version | VersionTracker | Build | Date |
---|---|---|---|
10.2 | ? | 6C115, 6C115a | August 24, 2002 |
10.2.1 | 6D52 | September 18, 2002 |
Notes[]
Note: Mac OS X 10.2.7 was only available to the new Power Mac G5s and aluminum PowerBook G4s released before Mac OS X 10.3. Officially, it was never released to the general public.
References[]
External links[]
- Mac OS X (v10.2) at Apple (archived 2002-08-29)
- Mac OS X 10.2 Review by John Siracusa at Ars Technica (2002)
- Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar at the Graphical User Interface Gallery
- Mac OS X Jaguar at Wikipedia