Mac OS X 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
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| Developer | Apple Inc |
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| OS family | |
| Source model | Closed source (with open source components) |
| Released to manufacturing |
October 24, 2003 |
| Latest release | 10.3.9 / April 15, 2005 |
| 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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