The biggest improvement in Panther is simply the speed. On an oldish G3 or G4 the performance increase in doing everything is incredible.
After this Expose has to be next best improvement. This really makes managing windows a whole magnitude easier. I've simply never seen a nicer way of doing this. I've set it to activate on the click of mouse button 4.
The ability to burn DVDs is also a big difference.
Yes I never thought of that one actually... I suppose the only reason that there is no SuperDrive option is so that the new iBook G4 doesn't cannibalise sales of the PowerBook.
Another area where the 12" iBook G4 beats the PB is battery life. It appears that the new iBook 12" has had its battery life extended to 6 hours just like its bigger 14" brother. Its max RAM is still limited to 640M though.
Its difficult to justify buying the 12" PowerBook with the new 12" iBook. I know the PowerBook is slightly faster, has slightly better graphics card, DVI out and a slightly nicer casing but the price difference is so large that you'd really have to need one of these specialised features to justify the purchase of a PowerBook 12".
This may interest some of you: The Russian Tu-144 "Charger" was actually the first SST. It first flew in 1968 about a year before the Concorde. In its later revisions it had a longer range than Concorde and was more fuel economic. However, for various reasons, the Soviets never really used the Tupolev 144. Its interesting to also note that NASA picked this aircraft over Concorde for various tests done in the late '90s.
I wonder if they are using GCC3.3 or IBM XL C. Apparently the performance from code generated by the IBM compiler far exceeds that generated by the latest PPC GCC.
According to this macrumors story there is an option in the Panther disk utility. However in 7B85 I do not see this option. I had originally thought it was Panther Server only but maybe this is not the case and they have just removed it from the final release. I suggest you google it if you want more information as this is as much as I know. I suppose you could use UFS if case sensitivity is really a necessity for you.
And the problem with remote volumes will "resolve itself" after 2-20 minutes of inactivity. I haven't yet tried it in panther. Guess I should.
This annoying problem has been fixed in Panther. Now it just brings up a dialog box asking if you want to disconnect or retry. I think these are the options anyway.
What ever happened to Copland? Or Rhapsody? Or object-oriented computing like OpenDoc?
Copland was cancelled in favour of buying NeXT and using OpenStep to form Rhapsody. Rhapsody was later released as Mac OS X Server 1.0. Mac OS X today, including 10.3 Panther, is the direct descendent of Rhapsody. I guess OpenDoc was killed along with Copland.
Surely, it cannot be that difficult to port from OSX (BSD-based) to Linux.
It would in fact be more difficult to port iTunes to Linux than Windows. There are a couple of reasons for this:
QuickTime already exists on Windows and this handles the AAC playback and DRM.
iTunes is written to the Carbon API set. Carbon is a modernised version of the original Mac API and so is neither available on Linux or Windows. iTunes is not a Cocoa application so could not be ported to something like GNUstep easily.
Believe me its much much faster. Everything is faster from the Finder listing massive folder contents to networking to slick graphical features. This is the first Mac OS X release I'd call truly mature. Buy it, you will not be disappointed.
I've got a pre-release running on an PowerMac G4 450, an iBook 500 and an iMac 233 and it makes all these machines feel like their CPU speed has been effectively doubled!
Anyways, it is most definitely understood that anything involving space is a little bit more difficult than eating a pretzel.
President Bush found a pretzel very difficult to eat indeed.;-)
I copied a number of large (500M +) disk images to my PowerMac and then installed the dev tools over the network. No speed problems whatsoever. Are you possibly talking about SMB networking performance or some other protocol?
Panther will feel faster on a 400MHz G3 than Jaguar did on a 600MHz G3. I'm currently typing this on a 500MHz iBook running Panther 7B68 and its noticeably faster in nearly every respect from networking to UI responsiveness. Panther is finally that truly polished release of Mac OS X that shows maturity is coming to the OS.
As for the new Apple logo I really could not care any less. Although its probably a more newsworthy item than Dell cloning something else again.
The 10.2.8 update seemed to break ethernet support on early G4 ("Sawtooth" and some later) systems. I think reverting to the earlier (10.2.6) version of the ethernet driver fixed this problem. This is the biggest problem with the 10.2.8 update.
On another not, for the first time I can remember, I did not apply this update to my "Sawtooth" G4 and so did not have a chance to experience this annoying problem. The reason for this was that I really couldn't be bothered since I've been playing a 10.3 beta and it runs beautifully. Seems its less buggy than the release version of 10.2.8!;-)
I'd just love to see the face of a spammer as they got convicted for sending 1000 or so of these degenerate emails. They'd finally get a taste of the annoyance they have caused to innocent email users (and hopefully a nice stay in prison).
I was really talking about the screen resolution rather that the CPU speed. I use OS X on a 233MHz iMac rev B and its usable, sort of. Anyway in my opinion 1024*768 is the lowest resolution that OS X is really useable on. iMove doesn't even run on anything lower!
OS X does not run well (in my opinion) on the following models:
Clam shell iBooks. These have 800*600 screens making them pretty horrible to use under X. Maybe its just because I'm use to my 19" Sony though.
Beige G3s. There are various unsupported things on the Beige G3. These include hardware DVD acceleration, 2D acceleration (on some graphics cards), 3D acceleration (again on some graphics cards) and even internal floppy drive support (although they are long dead on the Mac). However the beige G3 is still better of than the original iBook range.
Early PowerBook G3s. Like the beige G3s these have unsupported hardware DVD and graphics cards. However, unlike the beige G3, you cannot upgrade the graphics card.
Revision A iMac. These were not made for all that long but they have the unsupported (I think) Rage II graphics chip with only 2M video memory. All other iMacs are pretty much OK if you can endure the UI latency.
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I was a member of a club a few years ago...
Anyway I do not think they would allow my plane to fly at a club with its aluminium frame and slightly dodgy half baked design decisions. I was quite surprised that it actually could take off at all! The best flight being take off run -> not enough space so cut engine -> lifts off anyway -> fly for a couple hundred meters -> ram into fence. Fortunately due to the aluminium frame there was no damage.
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It seems that JBoss and J2EE are available as standard on Panther Server. If I remember correctly then this was not the case with Jag Server.
The biggest improvement in Panther is simply the speed. On an oldish G3 or G4 the performance increase in doing everything is incredible. After this Expose has to be next best improvement. This really makes managing windows a whole magnitude easier. I've simply never seen a nicer way of doing this. I've set it to activate on the click of mouse button 4.
The ability to burn DVDs is also a big difference. Yes I never thought of that one actually... I suppose the only reason that there is no SuperDrive option is so that the new iBook G4 doesn't cannibalise sales of the PowerBook. Another area where the 12" iBook G4 beats the PB is battery life. It appears that the new iBook 12" has had its battery life extended to 6 hours just like its bigger 14" brother. Its max RAM is still limited to 640M though.
Its difficult to justify buying the 12" PowerBook with the new 12" iBook. I know the PowerBook is slightly faster, has slightly better graphics card, DVI out and a slightly nicer casing but the price difference is so large that you'd really have to need one of these specialised features to justify the purchase of a PowerBook 12".
This may interest some of you:
The Russian Tu-144 "Charger" was actually the first SST. It first flew in 1968 about a year before the Concorde. In its later revisions it had a longer range than Concorde and was more fuel economic. However, for various reasons, the Soviets never really used the Tupolev 144. Its interesting to also note that NASA picked this aircraft over Concorde for various tests done in the late '90s.
They are running a special version of OS X. Probably just a beta version of Panther with the mysterious XGrid.
I wonder if they are using GCC3.3 or IBM XL C. Apparently the performance from code generated by the IBM compiler far exceeds that generated by the latest PPC GCC.
According to this macrumors story there is an option in the Panther disk utility. However in 7B85 I do not see this option. I had originally thought it was Panther Server only but maybe this is not the case and they have just removed it from the final release. I suggest you google it if you want more information as this is as much as I know. I suppose you could use UFS if case sensitivity is really a necessity for you.
They'd have to change HFS+, which is case-insensitive, and that might well break a number of apps.
Case sensitive HFS+ (Journaled) support is now included, as an option, with Mac OS X Panther Server 10.3.
However, all reviews I've seen so far indicate that 10.3 runs much faster on the same hardware, so this is unlikely to be the case.
I'm running the final release of 10.3 and yes it is much faster on the same hardware. How much faster has to be seen to be believed!
And the problem with remote volumes will "resolve itself" after 2-20 minutes of inactivity. I haven't yet tried it in panther. Guess I should.
This annoying problem has been fixed in Panther. Now it just brings up a dialog box asking if you want to disconnect or retry. I think these are the options anyway.
What ever happened to Copland? Or Rhapsody? Or object-oriented computing like OpenDoc?
Copland was cancelled in favour of buying NeXT and using OpenStep to form Rhapsody. Rhapsody was later released as Mac OS X Server 1.0. Mac OS X today, including 10.3 Panther, is the direct descendent of Rhapsody. I guess OpenDoc was killed along with Copland.
It would in fact be more difficult to port iTunes to Linux than Windows. There are a couple of reasons for this:
Believe me its much much faster. Everything is faster from the Finder listing massive folder contents to networking to slick graphical features. This is the first Mac OS X release I'd call truly mature. Buy it, you will not be disappointed.
I've got a pre-release running on an PowerMac G4 450, an iBook 500 and an iMac 233 and it makes all these machines feel like their CPU speed has been effectively doubled!
Anyways, it is most definitely understood that anything involving space is a little bit more difficult than eating a pretzel. President Bush found a pretzel very difficult to eat indeed. ;-)
According to Think Secret pro users are not happy with the small upgrades the new versions of the Adobe apps have got.
Note that Think Secret is a rumor site but it has probably the best reputation of any rumor site.
I copied a number of large (500M +) disk images to my PowerMac and then installed the dev tools over the network. No speed problems whatsoever. Are you possibly talking about SMB networking performance or some other protocol?
Panther will feel faster on a 400MHz G3 than Jaguar did on a 600MHz G3. I'm currently typing this on a 500MHz iBook running Panther 7B68 and its noticeably faster in nearly every respect from networking to UI responsiveness. Panther is finally that truly polished release of Mac OS X that shows maturity is coming to the OS.
As for the new Apple logo I really could not care any less. Although its probably a more newsworthy item than Dell cloning something else again.
The 10.2.8 update seemed to break ethernet support on early G4 ("Sawtooth" and some later) systems. I think reverting to the earlier (10.2.6) version of the ethernet driver fixed this problem. This is the biggest problem with the 10.2.8 update.
;-)
On another not, for the first time I can remember, I did not apply this update to my "Sawtooth" G4 and so did not have a chance to experience this annoying problem. The reason for this was that I really couldn't be bothered since I've been playing a 10.3 beta and it runs beautifully. Seems its less buggy than the release version of 10.2.8!
I'd just love to see the face of a spammer as they got convicted for sending 1000 or so of these degenerate emails. They'd finally get a taste of the annoyance they have caused to innocent email users (and hopefully a nice stay in prison).
The other PC emulators are:
Bochs - Open source emulator with some nice features.
MS Virtual PC - Probably the best PC emulator on the Mac. Now owned by the evil Microsoft corporation.
I was really talking about the screen resolution rather that the CPU speed. I use OS X on a 233MHz iMac rev B and its usable, sort of. Anyway in my opinion 1024*768 is the lowest resolution that OS X is really useable on. iMove doesn't even run on anything lower!
I was a member of a club a few years ago...
Anyway I do not think they would allow my plane to fly at a club with its aluminium frame and slightly dodgy half baked design decisions. I was quite surprised that it actually could take off at all! The best flight being take off run -> not enough space so cut engine -> lifts off anyway -> fly for a couple hundred meters -> ram into fence. Fortunately due to the aluminium frame there was no damage.