Panther arrives
October 25th, 2003 by admin
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p>I have been running MacOS X 10.3 “Panther” since it arrived on Friday afternoon. Here are some of my intial impressions and thoughts that might interest you.
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- Exposé is a very cool feature, which lets you see all your windows with the touch of F9. It is beautiful and fast on my G4 with a AGP Radeon card that supports Quartz Extreme. It’s slower, uglier, but still functional on my non Quartz-Extreme iBook.
- XFree86 4.3 (from www.xfree86.org) seems to be broken. It’s looking for a keymap file that no longer exists. Panther comes with Apple’s own X11, however, which seems to work great except it has some PATH issues and therefore my .xinitrc file doesn’t find the enlightenment unless I specify the full path.
- IRAF works fine, once X11 is working, I haven’t noticed any problems.
- PPP connections made with Terminal Scripts do what I call an “authentication dance” in that they connect, and then the PPP status alternates between “Authenticating” and “connected” for 30 seconds or so. The connection then seems to hold and work fine.