Discussions about mac version

How to find out Mac OS X version from Terminal? I know how to find Mac OS X version from GUI: Apple Menu (top left) > About This Mac Is there a Terminal command that will tell me Mac OS X version? Started by Željko Filipin on Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): However. Don't have a Mac in front of me to verify, but I believe running uname would return that.

How can display driver version be obtained on the Mac? How can the display driver version be programatically obtained on the Mac? Related: Programmatically get processor details from Mac OS X Started by V C on Monday, May 04, 2009, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): Apple -> About This Mac -> More Info Expand the Hardware drop-down and click on the Graphics.

Programatically obtaining operating system version data in Mac OS X In Red Hat the file /etc/redhat-release contains the operating system version data (such as "Red Hat release X.X (Final)"). Is there any similar mechanism in Mac OS X that can be used programatically to get the operating system version data (such as "... Started by knorv on Sunday, September 06, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at serverfault Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault): To get the ostype : sysctl kern.ostype To get the osversion : sysctl kern.osversion To get the version://developer.apple.com/mac/library.... Also query the sysctl interface which provides the kernel ostype, version and other details.

Find Mac OSX version installed using AppleScript Hi How can I find which version of OSX is installed on my Mac by using AppleScript? I want to install an app programatically and run different pkg files based on the version. Thanks Started by lostInTransit on Saturday, January 31, 2009, 5 posts by 5 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): Http://developer.... I'm not on a Mac, so there may be a better way version. E.g.,: ProductName: Mac OS X ProductVersion: 10.5.6 BuildVersion: 9G55 I'm sure there has to be something more elegant. From the shell with the sw_vers command.

Which eclipse version to use on a Mac? (Carbon or Cocoa) When i go to the eclipse website ( http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ ) there are 3 different versions of eclipse for Mac: Carbon 32bit Cocoa 32bit Cocoa 64bit I'm confused about why there are three version and which one i should be using. (I'm running... Started by Sam on Thursday, December 24, 2009, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): You.... The 32-bit version will use less memory, and because the 32-bit 1.5 JVM the 64-bit Cocoa version. I say go with the 32-bit Cocoa version unless you want to use Java 6. Is just the old graphical API, it was replaced by Cocoa .

Code version control when developing in .NET/SQL Server 2005 on a Mac I recently started a new job where the office environment is Mac-based, but I will be developing in .NET and SQL Server. I'm already pretty sold on installing VMWare Fusion to set up a virtual XP box, but I'm wondering if anyone would be able to recommend... Started by flayto on Thursday, July 16, 2009, 7 posts by 7 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): Are you saying you're.... If you keep it either in the XP box to use those virtual machines on a different workstation OR in the event of perhaps a new Mac of becomes dependent on it... Code control on your host operating system (mac os x).

Is there a free version of Mac OS X? Is there any Mac Operating System available to download ? Started by joe on Friday, July 24, 2009, 10 posts by 10 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): Also, keep in mind that new Macs come with Mac.... Assuming that you mean a) legally and b (questionably legally) buy a copy of Mac OS X and install it on a PC ("hackintosh"). You can't get Mac OS X for free, at least not legally.

What's a good version control for a Mac environment? I'm a Windows developer looking to do some Cocoa dev on a Mac. I'm familiar with Subversion, TFS, Sourcegear Vault, CVS and VSS in a Windows environment. What version control should I look at using in my new, unfamiliar Mac environment? I will be doing... Started by Nathan DeWitt on Friday, July 10, 2009, 12 posts by 12 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): I you're willing/disadvantage,.... Gitx is a good client. I personally use Git for all my Mac projects. There are lots of other clients available too. Versions is a very good Subversion client for the Mac. Available for Macs.

Getting Mac OS X version without using Carbon I need to get the 'nice' Mac OS X version string (e.g., "10.5.8"). Other sources say to use the "gestalt" to reliably get this value. The problem is, the Gestalt is a Carbon API and I can't link to Carbon (its a long story). Is there some other way, perhaps... Started by paleozogt on Friday, October 23, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): How about [[NSProcessInfo processInfo] operatingSystemVersionString]. You can run sw_vers in an NSTask and sort through its output .

Is there an iPhone equivalent of MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED? I would like to conditionally include code for an iPhone app depending on which version of the SDK I'm compiling against. On Mac OS X, there is the MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED preprocessor macro which gets set to the value of the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET... Started by Daniel Dickison on Saturday, March 28, 2009, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): See Availability.h #if __IPHONE_OS_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED >= __IPHONE_2_0 etc. OldSchoolMethod]; #endif There are preprocessor macros that are defined for each version of the OS, I'm not certain).