Is panther stable enough?

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Is it stable enough to install?

When you install it, is it afterwards possible to do a rollback to jaguar?

Or could I install it on an other partition (but some say that you have to erase the whole disk to partitionate it - :confused:)

ps: sorry for my poor English
 
I'd install it on another partition, or another drive. The reason is, you won't be able to upgrade the developer version to the final version of Panther/10.3 when it's released(says so in the Installer, if you read it when installing).

It hasn't crashed once yet for me. There are a few bugs. MSN Messenger has a problem with auto scrolling down when you get a new message.

Mail.app is a bit buggy. Sometimes it gets stuck checking an email account and you have to quit it and relaunch.
 
Doesn't happen here, Captain Code. My Mail.app works just fine with 2 POP accounts. Are you using IMAP accounts or a mix?
 
I have 4 POP accounts that it checks. One gets a lot of spam and it seems like when it says it's indexing the spam, it hangs the one account. It'll say downloading 4/12 messages or something and hang there.

It only seems to do it right when it starts up too. It might have to do with how many messages there are to be downloaded. After that, and there's only a few messages at a time, it doesn't seem to hang.
 
So it is better to install it on an other partition. When you want to partitionate it, will all my data be lost (also Jaguar)?
 
Unless you use something like Hard Disk Toolkit, then you'll need to reformat your drive to partition it. Its useful to have a couple of partitions in any case if your drive is big enough.
 
But: Never make an OS X partition too small. Puma, Jaguar or Panther doesn't matter. :)
 
i think it will still be safer if you backup the new partition first (if there is something else tehre already), just in case.
 
I am using it as my main OS, pretty stable, windows printing works, but I cant connect to windows servers :(

And my battery lasts about an hour less then with Jaguar :(

But other then that, it is sweet :P
 
The best way to install is on a separate HD as mentioned. Then you can erase it when the final release is available. Make sure you back up any important data!
 
Just make sure that you backup your home folder, apps, Library (the System one, too!) etc. Then you can clean install the Release version later on and just copy your stuff over it. Yep it's kind of a hack, but it's also the most simple backup solution for running (release) systems. And it just works fine most of the time. In the worst case, you'd have to copy the stuff one by one to find out what the release version _doesn't_ like. Usually, it just works.
 
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