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# Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar)

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( **Predecessor:** [Mac OS X 10.1 (Puma)](https://github.com/seanpm2001/WacOS/wiki/Mac-OS-X-10-1-Puma/) | **Successor:** [Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther)](https://github.com/seanpm2001/WacOS/wiki/Mac-OS-X-10-3-Panther/) )

Mac OS X Jaguar (version 10.2) is the third major release of macOS, Apple's desktop and server operating system. It superseded [Mac OS X 10.1](https://github.com/seanpm2001/WacOS/wiki/Mac-OS-X-10-1-Puma/) and preceded [Mac OS X Panther](https://github.com/seanpm2001/WacOS/wiki/Mac-OS-X-10-3-Panther/). The operating system was released on August 23, [2002](https://github.com/seanpm2001/WacOS/wiki/2002/) either for single-computer installations, and in a "family pack," which allowed five installations on separate computers in one household. Jaguar was the first Mac OS X release to publicly use its code name in marketing and advertisements.

## System requirements

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.

## New and changed features

Jaguar introduced many new features to Mac OS X, which are still supported to this day, including MPEG-4 support in QuickTime, Address Book, and Inkwell for handwriting recognition. It also included the first release of Apple's Zeroconf implementation, Rendezvous (later renamed to Bonjour), which allows devices on the same network to automatically discover each other and offer available services, such as file sharing, shared scanners, and printers, to the user.

Mac OS X Jaguar Server 10.2.2 added journaling to [HFS Plus](https://github.com/seanpm2001/WacOS/wiki/HFS-Plus/), the native Macintosh file system, to add increased reliability and data recovery features. This was later added to the standard Mac OS X in version 10.3 Panther.

Jaguar saw the debut of Quartz Extreme, a technology used to composite graphics directly on the video card, without the use of software to composite windows. The technology allotted the task of drawing the 3D surface of windows to the video card, rather than to the CPU, to increase interface responsiveness and performance.

Universal Access was added to allow the Macintosh to be usable by disabled computer users.

The user interface of Jaguar was also amended to add search features to the Finder using the updated Sherlock 3.

Internally, Jaguar also added the Common Unix Printing System (also known as CUPS), a modular printing system for Unix-like operating systems, and improved support for Microsoft Windows networks using the open-source Samba as a server for the SMB remote file access protocol and a FreeBSD-derived virtual file system module as a client for SMB.

The famous [Happy Mac](https://github.com/seanpm2001/WacOS/wiki/Happy-Mac/) that had greeted Mac users for almost 18 years during the Macintosh startup sequence was replaced with a large grey Apple logo with the introduction of Mac OS X Jaguar.

## Marketing

Unlike [Mac OS X 10.1](https://github.com/seanpm2001/WacOS/wiki/Mac-OS-X-10-1-Puma/), Jaguar was a paid upgrade, costing $129. In October [2002](https://github.com/seanpm2001/WacOS/wiki/2002/), Apple offered free copies of Jaguar to all U.S K-12 teachers as part of the "X For Teachers" program. Teachers who wanted to get a copy simply had to fill out a form and a packet containing Mac OS X installation discs and manuals was shipped to the school where they worked.

Jaguar marked the first Mac OS X release which publicly used its code name as both a marketing ploy and as an official reference to the operating system. To that effect, Apple replaced the packaging for Mac OS X with a new jaguar-themed box.

Mac OS X 10.2 was never officially referred to as Jaguar in the United Kingdom due to an agreement with the car manufacturer Jaguar, although boxes and CDs still bore the Jaguar-fur logo.

Starting with Jaguar, Mac OS X releases were given a feline-related marketing name upon announcement until the introduction of [OS X Mavericks](https://github.com/seanpm2001/WacOS/wiki/OS-X-10-9-Mavericks/) in June 2013, at which point releases began to be named after locations in California, where Apple is headquartered. Mac OS X (rebranded as OS X in 2012 and later macOS in 2016) releases are now also referred to by their marketing name, in addition to version numbers.

## Release history

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Version 	Build 	Date 	OS name 	Notes

10.2 	6C115 	August 24, 2002 	Darwin 6.0 	Original retail release

6C115a

10.2.1 	6D52 	September 18, 2002 	Darwin 6.1 	About the Mac OS X 10.2.1 Update, codename Jaguar Red

10.2.2 	6F21 	November 11, 2002 	Darwin 6.2 	About the Mac OS X 10.2.2 Update, codename Jaguar Blue or Merlot

10.2.3 	6G30 	December 19, 2002 	Darwin 6.3 	About the Mac OS X 10.2.3 Update, codename Jaguar Green

6G37 		Updated retail release

6G50 		Server edition; retail release

10.2.4 	6I32 	February 13, 2003 	Darwin 6.4 	About the Mac OS X 10.2.4 Update, codename Jaguar Pink

10.2.5 	6L29 	April 10, 2003 	Darwin 6.5 	About the Mac OS X 10.2.5 Update, codename Jaguar Plaid

10.2.6 	6L60 	May 6, 2003 	Darwin 6.6 	About the Mac OS X 10.2.6 Update, codename Jaguar Black

10.2.7 	6R65 	September 22, 2003 	Darwin 6.7 	Removed from distribution due to defects

10.2.8 	6R73 	October 3, 2003 	Darwin 6.8 	About the Mac OS X 10.2.8 Update; released as 6R50 for one day

6S90 	About the Mac OS X 10.2.8 (G5) Update

Mac OS X 10.2.7 (codenames Blackrider, Smeagol) was only available to the new Power Mac G5s and aluminum PowerBook G4s released before [Mac OS X Panther](https://github.com/seanpm2001/WacOS/wiki/Mac-OS-X-10-3-Panther/). Officially, it was never released to the general public.

Mac OS X 10.2.8 is the last version of Mac OS X officially supported on the "Beige G3" desktop, minitower, and all-in-one systems as well as the PowerBook G3 Series (1998) also known as Wallstreet/PDQ; though later releases can be run on such Macs with the help of unofficial, unlicensed, and unsupported third-party tools such as XPostFacto. 

**This article is a modified copy of the Wikipedia article of the same subject. It needs to be rewritten to be more original.**

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## Sources

[Wikipedia - Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_10.2/)

Other sources are needed, and this article needs LOTS of improvement and original work to prevent it from being a copy and paste from Wikipedia.

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