Panther Approaching FC?

Originally posted by Macrumors
As could be guessed by recent reports, there are rumblings that Panther is quickly approaching Final Candidate status. The most recent builds have not been seeded to the Apple Developer site, but reports of build numbers up to Build 85 have been reported. RailheadDesign was able to confirm up to build 83, yesterday.

The question is: what are the latest builds doing? Just correcting bugs or working on features? That way we'll know more precisely.

Bring it on!

I'm ready...

I can't wait for Panther either :-) I am really hoping my school upgrades to this, they are still running 9.x and only a few machines are 10.2

good news, if not entirely unexpected. i hope there aren't any egregious bugs that make it to the GM. jag had that CD-R/windoze issue..grr. maybe i'll just wait until 10.3.1 come to upgrade ;)

What happened to 10.2.8?

I haven't had a single problem on my G3 PB, but has there been any kind of follow-up or public comment from Apple since it was taken off the Web site?

Originally posted by brhmac
What happened to 10.2.8?

I haven't had a single problem on my G3 PB, but has there been any kind of follow-up or public comment from Apple since it was taken off the Web site?

I'm beginning to wonder that myself. They did publicly announce a problem last Wednesday or so dealing with gigabit ethernet adapters and 10.2.8, but it's curious that after another week now, we've seen no further announcements. I would have thought a fixed 10.2.8 would have been available before now already, I'm not sure what is up with that.

Originally posted by brhmac
What happened to 10.2.8?

I haven't seen anything either. If it was only the network issues, I am surprised it is taking so long to fix and re-release. That leads me to think perhaps there were a few more fixes needed.

What I read was that it had problems with 10T ethernet. We are running 100 & 1000 (except one old 6100 that is still 10T) with 10.2.8 (5 machines) without problems.

Originally posted by NicoMan
The question is: what are the latest builds doing? Just correcting bugs or working on features? That way we'll know more precisely.

Just to clear the air finally on this, they would be correcting bugs only. You don't add features this late in the game - in fact you often take the buggier, less public ones away (anyone remember Single Window mode? Didn't think so).

There may be some graphic changes. There will almost certainly be some textual changes. But only because these things can be done without changing the code handling them. But there will be no surprise features, and no major visual overhaul.

I still remember back in the day that no one could accept that 4K78 was 10.0 GM. Half of us still thought that Apple had all that "debug code" to take out...

I am very glad to hear that Panther is getting very close to being ready for release. The sooner it's released, the sooner I can get my G5 with Panther installed! I can also install Panther on the other computers currently running Mac OS X in my house (there are 2).

Obviously it won't install on the 3 older Macs or the 3 Windows boxes I also have. (BTW those aren't mine)

Originally posted by Ambrose Chapel
maybe i'll just wait until 10.3.1 come to upgrade ;)

Waiting for 10.3.1 is the smart thing to do.

Installing the first day is the fun thing to do. :p

BTW, anyone have an idea for what Apple is working on for a MacOS 11.0? The 10.2 and 10.3 jumps were pretty big. What would be big enough to justify a MacOS 11?

Also, is a $130 upgrade every year going to be the standard for the foreseeable future?