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Many of my suspect apps do indeed work in Leopard:

• Parallels 3.0 build 5160
• SnapzPro 2.1.1
• Little Snitch 3.0 b10
• Timbuktu 8.6- ancient, I know but I haven’t yet given it up for LogMeIn
• SoonR 1.1.8
• iStat menus 1.1- slight visual defects
• Locator 0.7.2- great front end to the unix locate service
• FileMaker 6.0v4- yes, I still have one database in the old, 2002-released, crusty, carbon application (please don’t tell anyone)

Anyone dare try installing Fink?

Update: It seems to work fine after a recompile with XCode 3.0 installed.

The following apps are currently incompatible with Leopard 10.5:

Dupin: Updated: 1.1.1 works great! crashes on launch

MacFUSE: generates errors in the console every 10 secs.  I remedied by removing the entry for com.google.filesystems.fusefs from the /Library/LaunchAgents/ folder.  Update: yes, this was the 10.5 version.

MyStrands: Updated 0.83 works great and looks good!  crashes on launch

fseventer: recognizes Leopard and disables itself

LMILaunchAgent is the hook for starting the LogMeIn internet screen sharing service.

Initial install notes:

- Quite a few scary moments upon each bootup

- Guess I should have installed fresh batteries

- The startup movie did not play on any of the three macs I’ve installed Leopard on.  if this happens to you, you can view manually by launching these two files:

- Something’s up with iDisk sync:

• Machine 1 presented me with a “Previous iDisk.dmg” on my desktop and rebuilt an entirely new local copy. 
• Machine 2 showed no iDisk and eventually brought it back about an hour after install. 
• Machine 3 seemed to just bring the iDisk over perfectly.

- .Mac sync is also acting screwy.  I keep seeing the conflict resolver no matter how I many times I say merge or replace.

- Overall compatibility seems excellent.

- The translucent menu bar isn’t as bad as I thought, but after changing it the included “Grass Blades” desktop picture, I immediately knew why Apple chose a dark color for the default.

- I like the upgrade overall, but everything seems a bit slower.  This is contrary to every review I’ve read.

I got my copy of Leopard (MacOSX 10.5) today and will be posting tidbits as I have time.  The first thing I wanted to know has been answered.

Time Machine does not require a dedicated disk for backup use.  You can continue to use free space for normal data storage.  Not only that but, it can use more than one drive (as long as it is formatted HFS+).