| Mac OS X v10.1 "Puma" | |
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| Part of the Mac OS X family | |
| Screenshot of Mac OS X v10.1 Finder and System Preferences | |
| Developer | |
| Apple Computer | |
| Releases | |
| Release date | September 25, 2001 [info] |
| Current version | 10.1.5 (June 6, 2002) [info] |
| Source model | Closed source (with open source components) |
| License | APSL and Apple EULA |
| Kernel type | Hybrid kernel |
| Platform support | PowerPC |
| Preceded by | Mac OS X v10.0 "Cheetah" |
| Succeeded by | Mac OS X v10.2 "Jaguar" |
| Support status | |
| Unsupported | |
Mac OS X version 10.1, code named "Puma", is the second major release of Mac OS X, Apple's desktop and server operating system. It superseded Mac OS X v10.0 and preceded Mac OS X v10.2. Version 10.1 was released on 25 September 2001 as a 'free update' to version 10.0. Starting with version 10.1.2, Apple made Mac OS X the default operating system on new Macs.[1]
The operating system was handed out for no charge by Apple employees after Steve Jobs' keynote speech at the Seybold publishing conference in San Francisco. It was subsequently distributed to Macintosh users on 25 October 2001 at Apple Stores and other retail stores that carried Apple products. The operating system was better received than Mac OS X version 10.0, although critics claimed that the operating system was still lacking features and was plagued with bugs.
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Apple introduced many features that were missing from the last version, as well as improving overall system performance.
This system release brought some major new features to the Mac OS X platform:
Although version 10.1 was a more efficient operating system than its predecessor, it still received its share of criticism.
Critics claimed that Mac OS X was still not fully developed in terms of reliability or functionality, and as such could not be used as a main operating system under normal conditions. They believed that Apple’s use of Mac OS 9 as the default booting operating system on new computers illustrated their point. Apple switched to using Mac OS X as the default with the 10.1.2 release.
| Version | Build | Date | OS name | Notes |
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| 10.1 | 5G64 | September 25, 2001 | Darwin 1.4.1 | Original retail CD-ROM release; 5L14 and 5L17b available after certain security updates |
| 10.1.1 | 5M28 | November 12, 2001 | Darwin 5.1 | Mac OS X Update 10.1.1: Information and Download |
| 10.1.2 | 5P48 | December 21, 2001 | Darwin 5.2 | Mac OS X Update 10.1.2: Information and Download |
| 10.1.3 | 5Q45 | February 19, 2002 | Darwin 5.3 | Mac OS X Update 10.1.3: Information and Download |
| 10.1.4 | 5Q125 | April 17, 2002 | Darwin 5.4 | Mac OS X Update 10.1.4: Information and Download |
| 10.1.5 | 5S60 | June 5, 2002 | Darwin 5.5 | Mac OS X Update 10.1.5: Information and Download; 5S66 after networking update |
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