This is the third installment of ThinkSecret's "Inside Panther" series, covering Mac OS X Version 10.3. Elsewhere, TheAge has a Panther article too, titled "Panther makes things purr".
Mac OS X 10.3, aka Panther, will not be a 64-bit operating system, despite running on a 64-bit processor, the PowerPC 970 aka the G5. Instead, the next major release of the Mac operating system will be a hybrid, much like version 10.2.7, codenamed 'Smeagol', which Apple has running on its pre-production Power Mac G5 machines and with which it will almost certainly ship production units, TheRegister reveals. TheRegister also has an article about a possible roadmap of the G5 CPU family. Also, this the second installment of ThinkSecret's "Inside Panther" series, covering Mac OS X 10.3.
Apple readies Panther Server, a forthcoming update to Mac OS X Server. Version 10.3 will feature improved management capabilities and support for Windows networks, add a variety of services including a new edition of the QuickTime Streaming Server. Read the rest at ExtremeTech.
This is the first installment of Think Secret's "Inside Panther" series, covering Mac OS X Version 10.3. Check back to their site frequently for additional Panther coverage. Today, they begin by taking a look at updates to the Finder and System.
A little commitment and some hard work will get you poised to build great applications. Do this by getting a grasp on designing and implementing a document-based Cocoa application of your own through concentration on the relationships between the source code and the user interface items. Read the article at InformIT. Elsewhere, Microsoft-Watch has a preview of Mac OS X Panther.
4osx has some screenshots of panther. Because there site is down from time to time, they have asked for mirrors. We have mirrored their screenshots and can be found here.
"These are the results of a series of tests I did using IOZone to determine the performance of various filesystems under Mac OS X. I tested HFS+, HFS+ w/ journaling, HFS, UFS, and Ext2 . Due to wide variation in the results, I did at least 4 runs of each configuration and then used the best score for each test." Read the benchmarks here.
There are multiple ways to look at Mac OS X and take it apart. Each way makes its own contribution to your understanding of the OS. In this long and interesting sample chapter of the "Mac OS X Disaster Relief" (updated edition) book, Ted Landau looks at the major ways to "take apart" Mac OS X.
The new Mac OS X 10.2.6update addresses an issue for Mac OS X 10.2.5 in which a kernel panic message may appear if certain USB hubs or devices are connected. Improves printing compatibility for PostScript OpenType fonts. Improves compatibility for Maya Auto Paint and Paint Effects features.
Apple is preparing another free update to Mac OS X 10.2, sources said. The company this week provided developers with the first pre-release seed of Mac OS X 10.2.6, labeled build 6L51. According to the seed's release notes. 10.2.6 will improve graphics and OpenGL, as well as OS X's Address Book application. Additionally, the update will provide greater compatibility with PC cards and USB hubs.
Someone has created a Flash preview of what he thinks Apple's new "Piles" features could be like. My Take: It is worth checking out, but it seems lacking- as implemented in the preview, it doesn't seem very useful; the author also mistakenly claims that such a feature couldn't be done on Windows.
The underlying operating system in Mac OS X (Jaguar) actually has a long history stretching back to BSD UNIX and CMU Mach. Bud Tribble will cover in this video its interesting evolution and its place in the current line-up of mass market operating systems. Topics include: the miracle (and challenges) of actually providing ease of use on top of BSD, the interaction of Mac OS X with the open-source software community (Darwin) and recent developments in Mac OS X (Rendezvous networking, Safari browser, X Window Server support, OpenGL, Java tools).
Apple Computer Inc. is planning to put the user at the center of its next major release of Mac OS X. According to sources, that's the umbrella term the Cupertino, Calif., Mac maker is applying to an arsenal of innovative new features in store for Mac OS X 10.3, a k a "Panther," reportedly due to ship in September. They said User at the Center features will make it simpler for individual users to personalize their computing experience and to move seamlessly among Macs and other devices.
During the past few weeks, I've installed a batch of new programs on my Macintosh computer running the OS X operating system. In this case, however, 'new' is a relative term. All share a legacy from NeXT -- the technology Apple Computer acquired in 1997 as the foundation of what became OS X. NeXT, founded about a decade earlier by Steve Jobs, was so advanced for its time that the world is still catching up in some ways."Read the article at SiliconValley.com.
Mac OS X 10.2.5, now available via Software Update and through the Apple Store, delivers enhanced functionality and improved reliability for the following applications, utilities, services, and technologies: Address Book, AirPort, AppleScript, Bluetooth, Classic compatibility, Disk Copy, Disk Utility, Finder, iChat, Image Capture, IP Firewall, Kerberos, Mail, OpenGL, Print Center, Rendezvous, and Sherlock.
In this column, Pierre Igot would like to review some of these benefits, in order to get a better idea of how much things have improved in the area of Mac OS stability ? but also of what 'still remains to be improved in the never-ending quest for the perfect computing experience for inexperienced and advanced users alike'. On another Apple-related story, Steve Jobs' appearance at an Intel internal sales conference reignites rumors of collaboration between the two companies.
John Siracusa from ArsTechnica, author of the famous 'Metadata, The Mac, and You' article, now comes back with an article that describes how a better Finder for Mac OS X should look like and behave.
