Comments on: Apple updates Leopard to 10.5.4

The latest version of Apple's Mac OS X Leopard is ready for installation, with fixes to applications like iCal and a few security-related updates.

[pcoogan]

A "new version" wow, you have got to love Apples marketing team. That makes me feel so much better now, that I didn?t buy a PC. PC users have to download bundles of patches every month. Where as I get a whole new version, for free. Which is nothing like a bundle of patches, right?

[Dalkorian]

Right. Other than to prove you have no idea whatsoever what you are talking about, what was the point of this post again? If you really do have a Mac (which I doubt), the point is simple - you run Software Update and it gets a "combo update" which fully patches your machine to current levels. Try running it again afterward - nothing comes up (except possibly some updates to software that required a certain OS level to install, for example there might be an update to iTunes that requires 10.5.3 or better and if you were running 10.5.2 before updating it wouldn't come up until after the update). With winblows update, you have to run the update to get a round of patches, then run it again to get the patches for the patches, then again for the patches that require the patches for the patches, then again for the patches to the patches that required the patches for the patches ...

[mynameiscoffey]

Actually it is different. The version requires the user to have all of the updates, where as a list of patches a user may only install specific ones and leave out others. Versioning is actually a really good way to ensure that everything is up to date, instead of asking "is patch Q1869103#2" installed. Its a lot simpler for the user.