'''"Panther"''' was the fourth major release of Apple Computer 's Mac OS X Operating System . It followed Mac OS X V10.2 "Jaguar" and preceded Mac OS X V10.4 "Tiger". Apple released Panther on October 24 , 2003 . The cost from Apple was US$129 for a single-user license and US$199 for a Family Pack (5 user, 1 household) license.
Since Panther requires a computer with a built-in USB port, certain older computers (beige Power Mac G3s and "Wall Street" PowerBook G3s) are unable to run 10.3 by default. 3rd party software (such as XPostFacto ) can override checks made during the install process; otherwise, installation or upgrades from 10.2 will fail on these older machines.
Apple advertised that Panther had at least 150 new features compared to the previous version, including:
- updated interface
- ---Brushed-metal interface
- ---Real-time searching (like ITunes )
- ---Customizable sidebar (like iTunes)
- ---Modified Icon
- , which allows a user to remain logged in while another user logs in; the "switch" between users was animated by putting the desktop windows of the users on the faces of a cube which rotated to the loggin-in user (the effect is only seen on systems with Quartz Extreme ).
- , a program to help the user manage windows, especially large numbers of them.
- built-in.
- built in.
- built-in.
- for Microsoft Word (---.doc) documents.
- , including support for SecurID -based VPN s.
- --- and decryption of a user's Home Folder
- ---Secure deletion
- , which speeds Compile times greatly with Gcc 3.3.
- Video-conferencing software
- and ''' Audio Units '''
- font manager
- Mac OS X v10.3.0 (build 7B85), released October 24 , 2003 (retail)
- Mac OS X v10.3.1 (build 7C107), released November 10 , 2003 ( Apple Download Page )
- Mac OS X v10.3.2 (build 7D24), released December 17 , 2003 ( Apple Download Page )
- Mac OS X v10.3.3 (build 7F44), released March 15 , 2004 ( Apple Download Page )
- Mac OS X v10.3.4 (build 7H63), released May 26 , 2004 ( Apple Download Page )
- Mac OS X v10.3.5 (build 7M34), released August 8 , 2004 ( Apple Download Page )
- Mac OS X v10.3.6 (build 7R28), released November 5 , 2004 ( Apple Download Page )
- Mac OS X v10.3.7 (build 7S215), released December 15 , 2004 ( Apple Download Page )
- Mac OS X v10.3.8 (build 7U16), released February 9 , 2005 ( Apple Download Page )
- Mac OS X v10.3.9 (build 7W98), released April 15 , 2005 ( Apple Download Page )
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