Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther"
(Part of the Mac OS X family)
Screenshot
Screenshot of Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther"
Developer
Apple Computer
Web site: www.apple.com/support/panther/
Release information
Release date:	October 24, 2003 [citation needed]
Current version:	10.3.9 (April 15, 2005) [citation needed]
Source model:	Closed source
License:	APSL and Apple EULA
Kernel type:	Hybrid kernel (XNU)
Support status
Security updates only

Mac OS X version 10.3 "Panther" is the fourth major release of Apple Computer's Mac OS X operating system. It follows Mac OS X v10.2 "Jaguar" and precedes Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger". Apple released Panther on October 24, 2003. The cost from Apple was US$129.00 for a single-user license and US$199.00 for a Family Pack (5 user, 1 household) license. Mac OS X (official IPA pronunciation: ) is a line of proprietary, graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Computer, the latest of which is pre-loaded on all currently shipping Macintosh computers. ... Download high resolution version (1024x768, 464 KB)Screenshot of Mac OS X v10. ... Apple Computer, Inc. ... October 24 is the 297th day of the year (298th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 68 days remaining. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... April 15 is the 105th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (106th in leap years). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The text below is generated by a template, which has been proposed for deletion. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... The Apple Public Source License is the open source license under which Apple Computers Darwin Project was released. ... A software license is a type of proprietary or gratiuitious license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software — sometimes called an End User License Agreement (EULA) — that specifies the perimeters of the permission granted by the owner to the... A kernel connects the software and hardware of a computer. ... Graphical overview of a hybrid kernel Hybrid kernels are essentially microkernels that have some non-essential machine code in the kernel address space in order for that code to run more quickly than it would were it to be in user space. ... XNU is the name of the kernel that Apple acquired and developed for use in the Mac OS X operating system and released as open source as part of the Darwin operating system. ... Apple Computer, Inc. ... Mac OS X (official IPA pronunciation: ) is a line of proprietary, graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Computer, the latest of which is pre-loaded on all currently shipping Macintosh computers. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Mac OS X version 10. ... Mac OS X version 10. ... October 24 is the 297th day of the year (298th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 68 days remaining. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

System Requirements

• Supported Computers - Power Mac G3, G4, G5, iMac, eMac, PowerBook G3 (bronze keyboard models only) or G4, or iBook G3 or G4
• RAM required - 128 megabytes
• Hard Drive Space - 1.5 gigabytes

Panther has increased system requirements over Jaguar (10.2) as it requires the computer to have a USB port. This change in requirements means that beige Power Mac G3s and "Wall Street" PowerBook G3s are unable to run 10.3. Checks are made during the install process and hence installation will fail on older machines. This requirement can be overcome by using 3rd party software such as XPostFacto. XPostFacto is an open-source utility that enables the installation of versions of Mac OS X on some Apple Macintosh systems that are not officially supported for them by Apple. ...

New features

Apple advertises that Panther has at least 150 new features, including:

• Finder updated interface
  • Brushed-metal interface
  • Real-time searching (like iTunes)
  • Customizable sidebar (like iTunes)
• Fast User Switching, that allows a user to remain logged in while another user logs in feature, featuring the desktop on an animated cube (the effect is only seen on systems with Quartz Extreme).
• Exposé, a program to help the user manage windows, especially large numbers of them.
• Fax support built-in.
• Zip support built in.
• X11 support built-in.
• TextEdit support for Microsoft Word (*.doc) documents.
• Microsoft Windows interoperability improvements, including support for SecurID-based VPNs.
• Security
  • FileVault: on the fly encryption and decryption of a user's home folder
  • Secure deletion
• Xcode Developer Tools, which speeds compile times greatly with gcc 3.3.
• iChat AV video-conferencing software
• PDF rendering speed increase
• File labels
• Pixlet high definition video codec
• CoreAudio and Audio Units
• Font Book font manager

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Version history

• Mac OS X v10.3.0 (build 7B85), released 24 October 2003 (retail)
• Mac OS X v10.3.1 (build 7C107), released 10 November 2003 (Apple Download Page)
• Mac OS X v10.3.2 (build 7D24), released 17 December 2003 (Apple Download Page)
• Mac OS X v10.3.3 (build 7F44), released 15 March 2004 (Apple Download Page)
• Mac OS X v10.3.4 (build 7H63), released 26 May 2004 (Apple Download Page)
• Mac OS X v10.3.5 (build 7M34), released 8 August 2004 (Apple Download Page)
• Mac OS X v10.3.6 (build 7R28), released 5 November 2004 (Apple Download Page)
• Mac OS X v10.3.7 (build 7S215), released 15 December 2004 (Apple Download Page)
• Mac OS X v10.3.8 (build 7U16), released 9 February 2005 (Apple Download Page)
• Mac OS X v10.3.9 (build 7W98), released 15 April 2005 (Apple Download Page)

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External links

• Apple: Mac OS X 10.3: Chart of available Mac OS software updates
• Ars Technica: Mac OS X 10.3 Panther