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Just loaded up Panther, aka OS X 10.3 (people at work were chiding me for waiting for several actual days before upgrading). It is very good.

Apple touts the Finder as being improved. In fact, it is much better; so far I’d say it is the best file management tool I’ve used on any OS.

In general the OS feels a lot more responsive, and seems to boot faster as well.

The only problem I have had so far was with X11; the upgrade apparently does not automatically install the final X11 application if you had the beta. The fix is to delete the beta X11 application from Applications and install again from Disc 3 (or from the Apple site). You can tell because the new application is in the Utilities folder.

The change didn’t take effect for me until I restarted, to get rid of the old X11 that was still running (there may be a way to really kill it).

The old one didn’t properly start the quartz window manager, and all windows appeared with their tops overlapping the menu.

But it works fine now.

A very nice upgrade.

There are apparently tons of new tricks to judge from macosxhints.