From: Paul Corsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 11:42:26 -0500
Question for Will S in particular or anyone else who has run both OS's. For Photoshop use- not gaming, with 1040MB of RAM and a 450 G4 card would you run Jaguar or Panther right now for stable performance in an S900? Thanks, Paul Corsa
Paul, I have to agree with Dan A. Jaguar has been rock solid for a long time especially 10.2.8. I work with a lot of large Video files. I keep them on a separate partition. For unknown reasons after deleting several large files I have corruption issues with that partition and new files added. Defragging that partition with Nortons Speed disk and then running Disk Warrior fixes the issues every time. When doing a lot of work I run Disk Warrior once a week on this partition and speed disk maybe once a month.
Panther is all about small changes and refinement. No big changes like from 10.1 to 10.2 . My first install was bad from the beginning. I had a lot of work to do so went back to Jaguar since it works so well. I finally had time to work on Panther. I did a new install and all is well. The first install just went wrong for unknown reasons as some times things do. It's nice in it's own way but I'm not sure it worth $129.00 if you already have Jaguar. It isn't as mature yet as Jag which is to say it still has some bugs. The issues people are having with it are pretty much the same now for both Apple supported machine or old clone. Ryan has just figured out the issue with built in Video for the Apple 7500-9600 series machines. The Beige G3 still needs a PCI Video card for Panther. The main issue with Panther is SCSI hard drives don't always mount or boot as they should. This is true of all machines old or new. It is likely the fact that all supported machines are sold with IDE hardware has something to do with this issue. SCSI is a build to order option on new Apple machines but I'm guessing so few are sold that Apple hasn't tested SCSI much with Panther. However my old SCSI CD ROM player and Yamaha CDRW SCSI works fine with Panther. I will be adding more apps to Panther and slowly moving over to it as time allows. So sorry but even though I got my copy of Panther right away I'm just now spending time with it for a second time.
In my opinion keys for happiness with OSX. After the install be sure to run disk permissions from Disk Utilities. Run Disk Warrior every time something seems not right. I recommend Defragging with Nortons Speed disk after installing and everything is setup. Also do not install any Nortons software on your OSX hard drive run it from the CD. Disk Warrior 2.1 can be used for repairing Jaguar but not Panther from OS 9 but it's slow. Nearly 1 hour for a 8GB drive. DW 3.0 takes about 15-20 min. DW 3.01 runs in 4-5 min! when ran from the hard drive. I keep a copy on both Jag and Panther since it can't be ran on your booted drive. Both Nortons and DW CD's can both be booted from using XPFacto 3.0 alpha versions. However I don't recommend nortons except for Speed disk. Disk DR gives all sorts of false errors which if you make the mistake of fixing screws everything up. Hope this is of some interest Will S
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