Apple continued the further development of Mac OS X 10.3 Panther this week with the first seedings of Mac OS X 10.3.3 build 7F24 and Safari 1.2 build 125. Meanwhile, the latest version of Safari boasts the ability to use the tab key to cycle through form elements and hyperlinks, in addition to sporting a beefed up download manager supporting resuming downloads. The browser update will also deliver improved performance and the ability to view image dimensions, sources said.
Apple Seeds Mac OS X 10.3.3 to Developers
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is coming along nicely, for those who are browser junkies.
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“The Darwine project intends to port and develop WINE as well as other supporting tools that will allow Darwin and Mac OS X users to run Windows Applications.”
sounds interesting ….
http://darwine.sourceforge.net/
Maybe on x86, but you’d still need a pentium emulator to do it on PPC Darwin/OS X.
That is what QEMU is for….
– Kelson
As i understand it, BOCHS will be doing the x86 (not “Pentium) emulation.
BOCHS is a fantastic x86 emulator (just as good if not better than VPC) but the software that has been released thus far which allows you to emulate Windows is garbage and WAAAY too slow.
By bypassing Windows emulation through WINE, DARWINE has the potential to be an incredible product for Mac users… something I hope Apple would have the forsight to bundle with future versions of OS X when its stable.
DARWINE will allow Windows applications to run on OS X… and with an OSX UI.
Nice!
DarWINE sounds great and all, but I can’t think of a single Windows application that I would want to run. Games would be the only use.
that most OSes are now starting to be defined by their web browsers and not much else. When talking to anyone who is non-technical, they really do assume that the browser is the OS. I mean if you don’t use the computer for anything but games and Browsing, there is little different between the OS and the browser. The browser is the computer.
Define an OS by its browser?
Good lord!
But as a Windows churl meself I do wonder when I will get a MacBox.
Can only be a matter of time with all the decent stuff coming out for the Mac these days.
“DarWINE sounds great and all, but I can’t think of a single Windows application that I would want to run. Games would be the only use.”
Good point.
There is already the same or equivilent (somtimes better) software in every category for OS X than what there is for Windows.
and given the fact it appears the “bug” in Jaguar’s Mail has been fixed in Panther (in 10.2.8, background images sent in Mail would show up tiled instead of showing up as they ought), I can only assume every version change will simply get better and better…
I’ll be looking forward to the new version. Panther totally dusts Jaguar in my mind. And I thought Jaguar was great…
Any idea what Apple is gonna call 10.4? Lion? Puma? Lynx? Bobcat?
Luposian
I’d run WinAmp. Everything has a nice OS X equivalent now – except WinAmp. Nothing comes close to supporting the number of bizarre audio formats that it does.
If this project works great, my next computer might be a mac.. :o)
A platform where I can run linux-, mac- (classic/OSX) and windows programs is quite appealing.
(I know it’s possible already, but I’d have to run windows on top of the whole ting..)
Nothing comes close to supporting the number of bizarre audio formats that it does.
http://www.foobar2000.org/
I would like to see Apple password protect the Mail.app.
There are some people who use my computer, who I do not want to see my stuff and I don’t want them to have their own user set-up.
You could just have a generic ‘Guest’ account. It’s fun to use fast user switching to move over and let someone else use the computer.
“Any idea what Apple is gonna call 10.4? Lion? Puma? Lynx? Bobcat?”
I believe the name of Mac OS X 10.4 is confirmed to be Cougar.
Sorry for a second post I forgot to mention that Puma was the name for Mac OS X 10.0 the very first release of Mac OS X if you don’t count the Public Beta.
Mac OS X 10.0 – Puma
Mac OS X 10.1 – Cheeta
Mac OS X 10.2 – Jaguar
Mac OS X 10.3 – Panther
Mac OS X 10.4 – Cougar
Mac OS X 10.5 – ???
“I’d run WinAmp. Everything has a nice OS X equivalent now – except WinAmp. Nothing comes close to supporting the number of bizarre audio formats that it does.”
VLC and MPlayer cover pretty much everything.
have you bothered to look at Mplayer for OS X?
it supports more formats than Winamp, and plays video much better as well.
3ds max is one app I really miss on OSX. I am aware that applications such as Maya, Cinema 4D are availible on OSX- but none can replace the max- for me personally.
You missed the most important part- on a Mac. FB2k does not run on macs.
http://www.foobar2000.org/requirements.html
You missed the most important part- on a Mac. FB2k does not run on macs.
No, I didn’t. Mr. Williams’ post was originally a response to:
“DarWINE sounds great and all, but I can’t think of a single Windows application that I would want to run. Games would be the only use.”
Both Winamp and FB2k are Windows applications, and someone could have a perfectly good motive to run either of them in Wine / OS X.
Okay, I want 10.5 to be named house cat, hehehehe. Anywayz, in seriousness, apple has really refined 10.3, my next computer will be a mac.
MPLAYER for OSX is soo good Apple should simply dump the quicktime player. It even plays FULL screen so why pay for the professional, if the only thing you want to do is play full screen quicktime movies. The sound and video quality were fantastic. I would love to see Apple simply include that MPLAYER!!!
Like it has been said, M Player and VLC can play most anything. Also, iTunes may not have Apples support for certain formats, but it can use plug-ins. FLAC and OGG Vorbis audio plug-ins come to mind.
You can play quicktime movies at fullscreen without quicktime pro, but you need to use an apple script to do so.
Hi,
I was MPlayer user until I found VLC. With VLC you can play VideoCDs (I haven’t tried this out though), video and audio are always synchron (it’s not the case with MPlayer), playlists function much better (in MPlayer if you drag a group of movies into the playlist, they are not ordered anymore). It seems that VLC needs more CPU power, my IBook 800 is absolute minimum for fullscreen movies. MPlayer seems a bit more optimized.
Anton
Aren’t Puma, Cougar and Panther the same animal?
Change the keychain entry for your e-mail account to ask you for permission to use it every time. You’ll have to respond with your Mac OS X user account password to unlock it.
Pumas, Cougars and Mountain Lions are all the same species of cat. Panthers, on the other hand, are the same species as Leopards.