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Mac OS X 10.3 Panther

Mac OS X 10.3 Panther
A version of the macOS operating system
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Screenshot of Mac OS X Panther. Notice how the Finder icon in the Dock has been changed and Internet Explorer has been replaced by Safari
Developer Apple Inc
OS family
Source model Closed source (with open source components)
Released to
manufacturing
October 24, 2003; 13 years ago (2003-10-24)
Latest release 10.3.9 / April 15, 2005; 12 years ago (2005-04-15)
Platforms PowerPC
Kernel type Hybrid (XNU)
License Apple Public Source License (APSL) and Apple end-user license agreement (EULA)
Preceded by Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar
Succeeded by Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
Official website Apple - Mac OS X at the Wayback Machine (archived January 11, 2005)
Support status
Unsupported

Mac OS X Panther (version 10.3) is the fourth major release of Mac OS X (now named macOS), Apple’s desktop and server operating system. It followed Mac OS X 10.2 and preceded Mac OS X Tiger. Apple released Panther on October 24, 2003.

Since a New World ROM was required for Mac OS X Panther, certain older computers (such as beige Power Mac G3s and ‘Wall Street’ PowerBook G3s) were unable to run Panther by default. Third-party software (such as XPostFacto) can, however, override checks made during the install process; otherwise, installation or upgrades from Jaguar will fail on these older machines.

The system requirements are:

Video conferencing requires:

Panther still supported the Classic environment fully for running older Mac OS 9 applications but made Classic application windows double-buffered, which interfered with some applications expecting to directly draw to the screen.

Apple advertised that Mac OS X Panther had over 150 new features, including:


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