Mac OS X Public Beta

Mac OS X Public Beta
Version of the macOS operating system
DeveloperApple Computer
OS family
Working stateHistoric, not supported
Released to
manufacturing
September 13, 2000
PlatformsPowerPC
Kernel typeHybrid (XNU)
Default
user interface
Aqua
Preceded byMac OS 9
Mac OS X Server 1.0
Succeeded byMac OS X 10.0 Cheetah
Official websiteApple - Mac OS X at the Wayback Machine (archived November 9, 2000)
Support status
Historic, unsupported as of March 24, 2001. Expired on May 14, 2001.
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Mac OS X Public Beta (internally code named "Kodiak") was the first publicly available version of Apple Computer's Mac OS X (now named macOS) operating system to feature the Aqua user interface. It was released to the public on September 13, 2000 for US$ 29.95. Its release was significant as the first publicly available evidence of Apple's ability to ship the "next-generation Mac operating system" after the Copland failure. It allowed software developers and early adopters to test a preview of the upcoming operating system and develop software for it before its final release. It is the only public version of Mac OS X to have a code name not based on a big cat until the release of 10.9 Mavericks in 2013. The US version had a build number of 1H39 and the international version had build number 2E14.[1]

  1. ^ Marcin Wichary. "GUIdebook > Screenshots > Mac OS X Public Beta". Guidebookgallery.org. Archived from the original on December 19, 2016. Retrieved June 21, 2011.