Mac OS X 10.2
| A version of the macOS operating system | |
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Screenshot of Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar
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| Developer | Apple Inc. |
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| Source model | Closed source (with open source components) |
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August 24, 2002 |
| Latest release | 10.2.8 / October 3, 2003 |
| Platforms | PowerPC |
| Kernel type | Hybrid (XNU) |
| License | Apple Public Source License (APSL) and Apple end-user license agreement (EULA) |
| Preceded by | Mac OS X 10.1 Puma |
| Succeeded by | Mac OS X 10.3 Panther |
| Official website | Apple - Mac OS X at the Wayback Machine (archived October 8, 2003) |
| Support status | |
| Unsupported | |
Mac OS X Jaguar, version 10.2, is the third major release of Mac OS X (now named macOS), Apple's desktop and server operating system. It superseded Mac OS X 10.1 and preceded Mac OS X Panther. The operating system was released on August 23, 2002 either for single-computer installations, and in a “family pack,” which allowed five installations on separate computers in one household. The operating system was generally well received by most Mac users as a large step forward in the areas of stability, general speed enhancements, compatibility with other flavors of Unix and the lineup of both graphical and terminal applications available; however, many critics, such as Amazon.com users, still claimed that significant user interface speed issues existed and that the operating system was still a big step down from Mac OS 9.
Jaguar was the first Mac OS X release to publicly use its code name in marketing and advertisements.
Mac OS X Jaguar required a PowerPC G3 or G4 CPU and 128 MB of RAM. Special builds were released for the first PowerPC G5 systems released by Apple.
Mac OS X Jaguar introduced many new features to the Mac OS that remain to this day, including MPEG-4 support in QuickTime, Address Book, Inkwell for handwriting recognition, and Apple Mail. It also included the first release of Apple's Zeroconf implementation, Rendezvous (later referred to as Bonjour), which allows devices over a network to discover each other and display available services to the user, such as file sharing, shared scanners, and printers.
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