Panther has been announced for October 24th.

[Laukev7]

http://www.apple.com/macosx/

From what I've seen, it looks great!

[jasonlane]

Man I can't wait, I'm also saving up to get a brand new Xserve. Panther, a Cow killer  

[hm_murdock]

it's great. it's the version we've been waiting for. With Panther and the G5... DA MAC IS BACK

[mushrooomprince]

yes but will there be an educators discount when buying it ?

[suselinux]

SuSE 9 comes out the same day!

Freaky eh?

web page

[mushrooomprince]

SuSE can't shake a stick at mac os  

[slave]

Yeah and Mac OS can't shake a stick at Windows 3.11 for Workgroups.


ha ha

[Laukev7]

quote:Originally posted by Linux User #5225982375:
Yeah and Mac OS can't shake a stick at Windows 3.11 for Workgroups.


ha ha

Can't shake a stick at it? I wouldn't even touch Windows with a 10-foot pole, let alone shake a stick at it.  

[hm_murdock]

ya it can. Mac OS was better than Windows 9x.

Mac OS X is better than EVERYTHING

[Laukev7]

quote:Originally posted by Agent Jimmy James Smith:
ya it can. Mac OS was better than Windows 9x.

Mac OS X is better than EVERYTHING

And that's saying a LOT; Windows 9x theoretically had a more advanced architecture than Mac OS, with protected memory and preemptive multitasking, but it was so crappy that it was actually LESS stable than the ageing Mac OS with cooperative multitasking and no protected memory.

[hm_murdock]

I've found OS 9 (barring 9.0.1) to be much more fault tolerant than 9x.

something goes down in 9x, it's very likely a bluescreen is coming.

In 9, guard pages and kickassity left 9x behind. not to mention the craptasticality of DOS hoverin' around in the shadows. DOS was the worst. 9x, except for maybe 95 sucked.

95 honestly wasn't so bad, because 98 brought all the bullshit. 98 was a little more stable, not really much slower, but it was BLOAT WORLD.

Windows Me liked to consume human fecal matter and then burp in your face

[Pissed_Macman]

quote:Originally posted by mushrooomprince:
yes but will there be an educators discount when buying it ?

I've heard there will be (the only good point to having teachers as parents that I've found so far).

[jasonlane]

Hey Macman, perhaps you could lease out you parents (per hour say), "Rent a parent", make little cash and we all get cheap macs. Sounds like a cool and fair deal to me.  

[Pissed_Macman]

Screw renting em, you can have them.

[jasonlane]

!!