Mac OS X Tiger

Mac OS X 10.4 " Tiger" is an operating system from Apple. It was released on 29 April 2005 as the successor to Mac OS X 10.3 " Panther". Mac OS X 10.4 first supported only Macs with PowerPC processor. Since version 10.4.4, the system also runs on Macs with Intel processors. Updates are offered separately as PowerPC or Intel version. The server version Mac OS X Server is available from version 10.4.7 as a universal version, which means that the same system can run on both PPC and Intel Macs. Tiger is more than two years, the longest- maintained version of Mac OS X. On November 14, 2007, the last version of Tiger appeared, 10.4.11. The successor of Tiger operating system is Mac OS X 10.5 " Leopard".

Innovations

Among the new features are a limited support for 64- bit processes ( on 64- bit processors ), improved SMB support as well as new application programming interfaces Core Image and Core Video to outsource graphic calculations to the GPU of the graphics card.

User Functions

  • Spotlight, a system-wide metadata search with storable search results
  • Dashboard with Dashboard can be faded over the desktop widgets
  • Automator is used to run routine tasks automated
  • Safari 2.0, the first time supports RSS
  • The H.264 video codec as part of QuickTime 7
  • New versions of iChat and Mail

System

Apple gives the following system requirements for Tiger to:

  • Mac computer with an Intel / PPC processor
  • Built-in FireWire technology
  • At least 256 MB RAM
  • DVD drive for installation
  • 3 GB of free space on the hard drive, 4 GB using Xcode

Tiger since version 10.4.4 supports both the PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor and Intel processors.

Security

On the subject of security, see the main article.

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