AppleTV OS 2.0.1
Released on March 28, 2008.
Changelog
- Genres feature under Movies [1]
- Ability to remove unavailable podcasts from Favorites [2]
- Snappier thumbnail loading for HD podcasts [3]
Updating
Updating from 2.0 to 2.0.1 rewrites part of the filesystem. Any files added to
-
/usr/bin
-
/usr/sbin
-
/opt
and other places are deleted.
Ben Mackin's USB enabler patch doesn't work with 2.0.1's /mach_kernel.prelink
.
So make sure to copy the V2.0 /mach_kernel.prelink
to your Mac before upgrading.
The 2.0.1 update
- removes non-Apple plugins from the menu
- disables verbose boot
- disables SSH
- disables USB mass storage support
- disables the SAMBA server
- disables the Apache server
The 2.0.1 update
- doesn't change the root password
- doesn't change bash settings in
/etc/bashrc
,/etc/profile
,/etc/hostconfig
and/etc/rc.local