Snow Leopard application compatibility

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Obviously things are a little different this time around, with 10.6 being billed more as a tune-up of 10.5.

Do you foresee all applications that work with 10.5 hitting the ground running on 10.6? Has anyone following/involved-with the beta noted application compatibility worries?

Is everyone here going to install 10.6 on day one?
 
Im going to leave it a few weeks, get an SSD and do a fresh install on that. I'm pretty sure that apps that work on 10.5 will work on 10.6
 
I'll install Snow Leopard when I get it. Does anybody know if it will search for an existing installation of 10.5 before installation. IE Be able to install onto a blank drive? Would be easier as I plan to upgrade my HDD when I SL is released
 
For anyone is interested, Office 2008 won't install without "Rosetta".

Now, I read this on AppleInsider, but I decided not to chance it when I installed 10.6 (build 10A432) so I cannot verify if that's still the case.

90% of system apps are 64 bit, and everything that I've installed has worked as it has under Leopard.

  • Transmission (Bit Torrent)
  • VLC (Media player)
  • Perian (Quicktime Codec Plug-In)
  • Adobe Master Collection CS4 (Media Suite)
  • Office 2008 (Microsoft DTP suite)
  • UnRar X (Compression software)
 
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Sounds good.

Don't suppose anyone has tried SteerMouse or Little Snitch? They seem reasonably high risk.
 
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