Posted on 10/24/2003 10:16:19 PM PDT by Swordmaker
When I came home from work this afternoon a small package was waiting for me... Apple's newest operating system: Macintosh OS-X Panther.
The system comes on three disks plus another disk of Developer Tools. The installation actually only uses two of the CDs and in fact the second only carries the "i" applicatin software and the extra language files. Updating my OSX .2.8 installation on my 1.6Mhz G5 took only 22 minutes... plus another 15 or so for the software and extra languages. Although I prudently backed up my critical files, the installation went smoothly and my files were left untouched and my preferences were retained with no problem. First impression is that everything is a tad quicker. Appleworks 6.0 opens about twice as fast as previously as does Microsoft Office for Macintosh. Safari's (Macs browser) opperation is noticeably faster.
One glitch I have discovered is that Marine Aquarium 2.0 Screen blanker's column of bubbles displays as a white funnel... no bubbles. Turning it off brings back the water background. But the bubbles were nice. I use the Aquarium animation as my desktop background and, without bubbles, it still works nicely. I also discovered that I did need to reinstall my serial number for Marine Aquarium 2.0 for some reason.
So far all other passwords and serial numbers are present and accounted for.
One thing missing... the Clock application. I liked having a floating day/date clock on my desktop that you could adjust the transparency of... not found on my Harddrive now. Rats.
Classic (OS 9.2.2) boots much faster and works as expected.
Expose works as advertised. A single key stroke "thumbnails" every open application window on the screen. Clicking on any of them brings that application to the front as the active window. It does not bring up "hidden" applications however. Moving the mouse over a thumbnail describes what it is. I'll have to explore this more.
I was sort of comparing all 3 of the O/S's....
Thanks for the advice. Marine Aquarium 2.0 has upgraded their software to 2.06 and the bubble problem has gone away.
Although Linux is making strides, I see them on laptops and with CD-R's now on the Linux websites... they are moving up.
Good question... for some reason Apple started code naming their new releases after big cats... OS X.2 was "Jaguar" and the box and CD featured a Jaguar skin printed X... Panther has a black box and black CDs.
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Obviously the next upgrade needs to be "Sabertooth"!
Glad you like your new system.
I am still using Jaguar.
Tia
U.S. based Internet security research company @Stake has warned of newly discovered vulnerabilities affecting the Mac OS X operating system. The company released three advisories this morning. The first details "systemic" flaws in the way OS X handles file and directory permissions, while the second details a kernel level vulnerability that does not affect default installations of the operating system. The third involves a buffer overflow condition that may be remotely exploitable.rest of article hereControversially, Apple has not yet released patches for the security issues. @Stake has advised Mac users to upgrade to the latest Apple operating system, which is not vulnerable to the flaws. The operating system, OS X 10.3, or Panther, is priced at US$129.
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