TEH PANTHAR

[hm_murdock]

well, I've been running Panther 7b28 for a week or so now, and I must say that even being beta quality and relatively buggy, it's so vastly improved over 10.2.6 that I'm once again using OS X full time now.

it's obvious that quite a bit of work has been done to Quartz and the drivers for Rage 128, as OpenGL acceleration is now available for iTunes vizzes, which never was before. the entire UI is much faster, snappier, scrolling and resizing is GREATLY improved on my 600MHz iBook. don't expect QE to suddenly be enabled on your Rage 128 card, but expect hella improvement. they managed to get SOME kind of acceleration going

journaling is now the default option when you initialize your HD, which is pretty nice, considering the panther installer for some reason WIPED MY WHOLE DRIVE!!!!

so I'm happy that journaling is enabled. it really makes up for all my data being lost    

I likes it so far!

[hm_murdock]

since I'm an arrogant SOB...

BUMP!

[billy_gates]

now,  only to get 39.  I have 39 and am looking for 44 now.


update*  Found, downloaded and burned disc 1.  The others havn't been posted on the Newsgroups yet.

Yes, this happened between my last post and now.. About 2 hours... I fucking love bit torrent.

[ August 23, 2003: Message edited by: jeffberg: Mac Capitalist ]

[billy_gates]

quote:Originally posted by jeffberg: Mac Capitalist:
I fucking love bit torrent.

I am downloading disc 2 and 3.  However torrent is being a real bitch.  It says I have uploaded over 500MB more than the size of the either of the discs and yet it has stopped downloading.

I fucking hate bit torrent (right now)

[Pissed_Macman]

If that fucking erases my hard drive when I install I will be fucking pissed and I will most likely bludgeon Steve Jobs with an old iMac and jam a few hockey puck mice up his nose.

[ August 28, 2003: Message edited by: Macman ]

[jasonlane]

quote:Originally posted by Macman:
If that fucking erases my hard drive when I install I will be fucking pissed and I will most likely bludgeon Steve Jobs with an old iMac and jam a few hockey puck mice up his nose.

If you're downloading and using betas you get what you deserve. That's why there betas.

[hm_murdock]

yeah. 7b28 by default erases and installs clean. I think it's in the readme in the installer.

archive and install doesn't work in 7b28, either. I think it should be fixed now.

oh well. I'm not too bad off. all of the data that really mattered was backed up before I installed. there was just a bunch of shit I'd collected over the years that I would like to have had ::shrug:: no big loss

[billy_gates]

i've been running 44 for the past day now.  I would say that it is faster and more stable than Jag.  One annoying thing though is that a lot of apps, when u close them say they crashes.  But its ok cus they already closed. Just annoying.

if anyone wants to see the new sheet animation in OSX lookey here:
http://www.bgmccollum.com/panther/sheets.jpg and here:
http://members.lycos.co.uk/myphpmysqlsite/sheets.mov

the movie does not do it justice..... it is really awesome.  Although I wish I could hold shift to slow it down like I can with minimizing windows and expos

[bossesjoe]

anyone wanna throw a link to panther bit torrent style?

[billy_gates]

quote:Originally posted by bossesjoe: too lazy to post much:
anyone wanna throw a link to panther bit torrent style?

http://mac.torrentskickass.com/
have fun... just search for 7b44.

[bossesjoe]

quote:Originally posted by jeffberg: Mac Capitalist:


http://mac.torrentskickass.com/
have fun... just search for 7b44.

Many thanks