TUAW reported yesterday that Apple could be seeding developers an early build of Mac OS X 10.6 at WWDC next week.
TUAW also reports that Mac OS X 10.6 will ship in January 2009 and that Apple will drop PowerPC support from OS X making it Intel-only. Mac OS X 10.6 is also said to add very few new features and focus purely on "stability and security."
MacRumors vouches for the report stating that they heard that Mac OS X 10.6 would make a debut at WWDC this year.
Today Ars Technica added to the hype surrounding Mac OS X 10.6 by concurring that the next version of OS X will be Intel-only and is currently code-named "Snow Leopard".
Ars also clarifies that the release will be "heavily focused on performance and nailing down speed and stability" and should debut in January 2009.
Finally the site adds that Mac OS X 10.6 will be "Cocoa-only" but adds:
There may be some disagreement here as to what exactly "Cocoa-only" means, so take that into account when thinking about this. For example, Apple may only axe Carbon UI stuff.
The “pure Cocoa” stuff is about additional Cocoa wrappers for APIs that currently are only available in Carbon (and/or at the BSD level) — more stuff that developers can do using Objective-C APIs. It is not about dropping Carbon from the OS, which would make no sense. It’s a message for developers, not a description of Snow Leopard.