Mavericks Beta Testing Program now open to everyone -- not just Developers (1 Viewer)

You can test the latest builds of Mavericks and give feedback
directly to Apple in the same way Developers do.

It's no longer a "Developers Only" privilege.

https://appleseed.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/learn?c=join

There is a non-disclosure agreement of sorts that you need to accept
in order to join.

This is gonna be interesting. I recommend the breaking bad strategy: Tread lightly! =)

I just did the upgrade last night.

So far, so good, although SpamSieve is not working correctly even
though I am using their latest beta version.

Are you using this on your main machine? Is that dangerous? How "beta" are these OS X betas?

Dave,

If this were a new operating system in the making I would be concerned. I used the
betas going from Snow Leopard to Lion and then Lion to Mavericks. It got a bit buggy.

However, I feel a little more secure knowing that it is Mavericks beta instead of a transition
to a new version.

That being said...

Installed the beta last night. This morning the computer was running perfect.

However...

Ran into a snag with Chrome and Safari not uploading images properly. Could not
get either to upload an image when I hit the image button (in this editor).

At first I thought it was just a software bug with this forum. However, now I am
realizing it is probably a bug with the beta and how the browsers interact with it.

Not quite sure how to go back to the older version of Mavericks.

I'm not really concerned as I have a second computer and really, it's a minor bug
at the moment.

Dave,

I take the above back.

The problems with the browser were not related to Mavericks beta.

Everything is working fine now, which means it was probably a temporary
software glitch on this platform.

So, what I am saying, is that the Mavericks beta is working quite well.

Cool. Presumably, Apple would take care not to release to the lay public dangerously buggy betas. They want feature feedback, and don't want an uncontrolled PR disaster of "Apple OS X beta destroyed my data"Still, betas bring more risk than even dot-zero releases. Maybe I'll take a look at it. My Mac is not a "production" machine. (I get in trouble if there's even a whiff of screwing up my wife's iMac )