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Panther 7B39 Client Seeded

Sunday August 17, 2003 12:08 pm PDT by Arnold Kim
Panther 7B39 has been released to developers.



The latest seed brings further bug-fixes and stability to the upcoming version of Mac OS X. Visual changes are few... with a revised About box, as well as the public inclusion of the Bluetooth options for the Mouse and Keyboard.



The Bluetooth Keyboard/Mouse control panel had been inactive but present in previous English versions of Panther. While many speculate on Apple's launch of such a product, it could simply provide support for 3rd party Bluietooth devices, such as the new Belkin Bluetooth mouse mentioned last week on MacBytes.com.



MacNews.net.tc provides a list of changed components.

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AppleMatt
111 months ago
Hooray! As soon as I get home I'll be downloading...

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CmdrLaForge
111 months ago
A simple question:

Can Panther 10.3 be installed as an update over a current 10.2 ?

Or is it necessary to format the drive and install the OS from scratch ?

Cheers
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AppleMatt
111 months ago
Yes it can, but when I did it (with the very first seed), I had numerous problems with certain applications getting the generic icon and crashing upon launch.

Also my benchmarks were slower for an update over a clean install.

We're a number of builds along now though, perhaps Apple have sorted these problems.

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themadchemist
111 months ago
You know what guys? I'm still using 10.1.5.

And the computer with that is packed away in a storage facility waiting for me to get back to school.

Right now, I'm on WINDOWS 98SE! R0X0RZ! :D
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etoiles
111 months ago

Originally posted by themadchemist
You know what guys? I'm still using 10.1.5.

And the computer with that is packed away in a storage facility waiting for me to get back to school.

Right now, I'm on WINDOWS 98SE! R0X0RZ! :D


aaah, nothing like a little bit of self inflicted pain from time to time...:p
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bennetsaysargh
111 months ago
i need CDRs :(
i had 7A202 and labeled the 7B28 disc the wrong thing, so it wouldn't boot:(
keep the CD's name in tact or it won't boot to install!
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daveL
111 months ago
Both US sites are full. At least now the ADC download site is setting a threshold for max number of users; you get a "maximum connections reached, try again later message". I'm currently getting good rates from Japan.
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vrapan
111 months ago
hope they fixed the address book bluetooth problem and safari became more stable.... but i dont complain i maxed out the mem of the pb and it is now flying :D my apple switching experience gets better. i love XCode!!!! hope they fixed it a bit too... can't wait to install that little kitty
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AppleMatt
111 months ago
All I want is Graphics and OpenGl performance above and beyond Jaguar, currently both are below.

I really hope there are major improvments by GM.

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AhmedFaisal
111 months ago
Is Apple finally getting the hint that just supporting USB Dongles is quite rude to all Pre-Aluminum Powerbook owners who DO have PC-Card slots? I seriously hate the Dongles and and finally want to be able to use the 3com Bluetooth PC-Card (with retractable antenna) from my PC Notebook in my Powerbook. That is the one thing I think PCs have in advantage to Apples right now.
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