Along with releasing the first ever public beta of iOS 9, Apple has also opened up OS X El Capitan to the public for beta testing as well.
The new operating system which was announced at WWDC, has been in the hands of developers for a month, but Apple is expanding testing by opening it up to anyone who registers for Apple’s public beta program.
Public beta testers can register to install the new OS X 10.11 software on their machines by visiting Apple’s Beta Software Program website. Once registered, El Capitan can be installed on your main Mac, though we recommend you create a separate partition to try it on, rather than opening your entire hard drive to the bugs and glitches that Apple is working to fix.
The public release of OS X El Capitan is slated for this fall as a free upgrade to all Mac owners. Here’s our full walkthrough on how to install it the right way on your machine.
Buster Hein is a freelance writer who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Twitter: @bst3r.
4 responses to “You can now install the El Capitan public beta”
BE CAREFUL!!!! I am in the midst of a Time Machine restore because El Capitan made many of my daily driver programs unusable. Kernel panics, crashes and even programs that would just not start. I’d put it on a partition to play with for now. I made a stupid mistake of putting it on my main machine… DUH.
Thanks for the warnings. I love getting my grubby paws on public betas too but I also need my machine to work. I’ll wait a week or two and see if we get some more stable versions soon.
My macbook pro is okay, instal El Captain easily.
Download crashed and now when I try redownload I get a msg the redeem code has been already used. How do I get around this?