Apple seeded build 7B74 of Mac OS X 10.3, Panther, to developers and testers, ThinkSecret reports. The new build was posted to the Apple Developer Connection Web site late Saturday. Apple has determined which bugs will be fixed in the initial Panther release.
ThinkSecret: Apple Seeds Panther build 7B74 to Testers
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Partly becasue I want to upgrade my HDD on my G4 tower and I lost my Jaguar CDs :-p.
but also becasue it is gonna kick butt!!
Hey, anyone who’s been testing Panther know if it has any speed improvements on older hardware – like say a G3? Just wondering.
Still can’t wait for this – it’s lookin’ nice.
Just an update
Been testing 10.3 on a G4 tower, 392MB RAm, ATI Raedon7500 (32MB) and 40GB HD as of last week. So far it feels faster, but its freezin everytime you right click or click and drag.
It looks a lot better in my eyes to Jaguar, more professional. The base install still takes way too long over2hours but until I find out whats causing the whole system to freee every other second I can’t really give a good comparison between 10.2 and 10.3.
Been running all the builds of Panther on my iBook, it runs faster then OS X.2, not a HUGE diffrence, but you can really notice the speed improvments
If the base install is taking that long. On my PBG4 500, Panther 7B68 is much faster than Jag. I thought about selling it, but Panther has breathed new life into it.
I’ve been using the seeds since 7B2x on my G3 400 Pismo (Firewire/2000 PowerBook) and it’s been great.
My only issue is I can’t get it to install on my PowerMac dual G4 Sawtooth. I blame the DVD-RAM drive, but I could be wrong. When it finally gives up trying to boot off the disc, it dumps me to OpenFirmware…
But Panther itself (on my three year old laptop with 8 megs of VRAM) is awesome. I love how with every release, the OS gets faster on the same hardware. Not so with other commercial operating systems… 😉
any plan for that?
Panther works rather well, especially on the new PowerBooks (12/15/17″). Very fast. Jaguar is not even a cat in comparison!
“My only issue is I can’t get it to install on my PowerMac dual G4 Sawtooth”
There is no Dual Sawtooth, I think you are refering to the “Mystic” which came in 400/2×450/2×500 Mhz (apple-history.com)? I kind of want to know, Since I am planing on buying that computer and running Panther on it.
I haven’t had a chance to test it yet.
I’m wondering, is Internet Explorer still the default browser or did Apple remove it since it is no longer supported by Microsoft.
Thank you.
http://www.sideliners.ca
I’ve never owned a Mac, but according to Safari’s homepage, it is the default browser.
http://www.apple.com/safari/
How’s FTP and networking in general?
I’d really love to be able to mount an FTP volume and be able to upload and download right in the Finder. Unless I’m mistaken you can only download this way.
I have the dual 500 upgraded to a 1.3. I didn’t get a chance to try Panther with the stock config. Runs Panther 7B53 very well with the upgrade though. No complaints here.
Safari is the default but you can still install IE via the custom install in 7B53. Not sure in newer builds though.
Right.. It’s a “Mystic”. My bad.
It simply refuses to boot the Panther images. The best I can get out of it is dumping me to OpenFirmware (as I mentioned). Jag installs just fine. I’ve tried multiple optical drives (in the very unlikely chance that it’s something to do with the DVD-RAM drive being funky).
Now that I know the actual machine name, I’ll try and google for more info…
Just thought I mention it.