Mac OS X v10.2

Mac OS X version 10.2 "Jaguar" was the third major release of Apple Computer's Mac OS X operating system. It followed Mac OS X v10.1 "Puma" and preceded Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther".

It was released on August 23 2002.

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 Apple 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 Apple Universal Access features
• Sherlock 3: Web services (See Watson)
• Increased speed across the entire system

Version history

• 18 September 2002: Mac OS X v10.2.1
  • Apple: About the Mac OS X 10.2.1 Update
• 11 November 2002: Mac OS X v10.2.2
  • Apple: About the Mac OS X 10.2.2 Update
• 19 December 2002: Mac OS X v10.2.3
  • Apple: About the Mac OS X 10.2.3 Update
• 13 February 2003: Mac OS X v10.2.4
  • Apple: About the Mac OS X 10.2.4 Update
• 10 April 2003: Mac OS X v10.2.5
  • Apple: About the Mac OS X 10.2.5 Update
• 6 May 2003: Mac OS X v10.2.6
  • Apple: About the Mac OS X 10.2.6 Update
• 3 October 2003: Mac OS X v10.2.8
  • Apple: About the Mac OS X 10.2.8 Update
  • Apple: About the Mac OS X 10.2.8 (G5) Update

Mac OS X v10.2.7 was only available to the new Power Mac G5s and aluminum PowerBook G4s released before Mac OS X v10.3. Officially, it was never released to the general public.

Mac OS X v10.2.8 is the last version of Mac OS X supported on the "beige G3" desktop and minitower systems.

Also, the famous Happy Mac that had served Mac users for almost 18 years was replaced with a large grey Apple logo with the introduction of Mac OS X 10.2.

External links

• Apple: Mac OS X 10.2: Chart of available Mac OS software updates
• Ars Technica: Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar