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Pinot -> Panther
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Oh, yeah, that's what I want - an OS version w/ a code-name that signifies "insufferable pain-in-the-ass"
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If you want to get technical, puma, panther, and mountain lions are subspecies of cougar as defined on florida Panther Net. The jaguar and leopard are different species.
As for black panthers, there's no such thing. There are black(melanistic) bobcats and black(melanistic) jaguars which just have very dark pigmentation behind their spots which makes them look black.
As for the change from Pinot to Panther, I think it's great. Keep with the cat reference until OS 11(XI).
If you want to get technical, puma, panther, and mountain lions are subspecies of cougar as defined on florida Panther Net. The jaguar and leopard are different species.
As for black panthers, there's no such thing. There are black(melanistic) bobcats and black(melanistic) jaguars which just have very dark pigmentation behind their spots which makes them look black.
As for the change from Pinot to Panther, I think it's great. Keep with the cat reference until OS 11(XI).
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Pino had potential
At least Pino would continue to get better for a couple of years. They could offer a special upgrade program where you'd buy the beta cheap and get all the upgrades for free or pay more for a mature OS later.
With OSX's descending feline speed hierarchy, cheetah, jaguar, puma, housecat, etc., maybe they could have started 10.0 as vinegar and worked their way back to grape?
Oh wait, I forgot I don't care about this subject!
At least Pino would continue to get better for a couple of years. They could offer a special upgrade program where you'd buy the beta cheap and get all the upgrades for free or pay more for a mature OS later.
With OSX's descending feline speed hierarchy, cheetah, jaguar, puma, housecat, etc., maybe they could have started 10.0 as vinegar and worked their way back to grape?
Oh wait, I forgot I don't care about this subject!
Main Entry: pan·ther
Pronunciation: 'pan(t)-th&r
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural panthers also panther
Etymology: Middle English pantere, from Old French, from Latin panthera, from Greek panthEr
Date: 13th century
1 : LEOPARD: as a : a leopard of a hypothetical exceptionally large fierce variety b : a leopard of the black color phase
2 : COUGAR
3 : JAGUAR
They are all of the order "Panthera."
Leopards are black when they are young, and that's when they call them panthers.
I don't know much about the Cats' Species/Kingdom/Phyla/what-not but I do have interest in the new system OS
Anyone have info on what will be new in it? What is Apple's wish list for it to have (yours for that matter -- serious though)?
btw, any of you priv. ones to have gotten ahold of 10.2, do you know the kernel version? I believe you can type "uname -a" in any term to get the xnu version number. Just curious because I've been spending some time trying to upgrade one of my Darwin x86 boxes' kernel.
-- Bert
Anyone have info on what will be new in it? What is Apple's wish list for it to have (yours for that matter -- serious though)?
btw, any of you priv. ones to have gotten ahold of 10.2, do you know the kernel version? I believe you can type "uname -a" in any term to get the xnu version number. Just curious because I've been spending some time trying to upgrade one of my Darwin x86 boxes' kernel.
-- Bert
OK... "P*ssy" works for me! I can just see Jobs on stage...
(that's funny... you cant post that word! I guess they have filters set up.)
6.0 again?
sorry if I'm lame, but I havn't seen any ref to Darwin 6.0 ever. Until last night on the Darwin-user list from apple. I've always seen it posted as Darwin 1.4.1.
Maybe there is some informative web space that I do not know of, I'd like to know though because I'm having some trouble finding new information
Anyway, I was asking for the xnu version. Darwin 1.4.1 has xnu-222.
thanks though!
-- Bert
sorry if I'm lame, but I havn't seen any ref to Darwin 6.0 ever. Until last night on the Darwin-user list from apple. I've always seen it posted as Darwin 1.4.1.
Maybe there is some informative web space that I do not know of, I'd like to know though because I'm having some trouble finding new information
Anyway, I was asking for the xnu version. Darwin 1.4.1 has xnu-222.
thanks though!
-- Bert
Re: 6.0 again?
Darwin .local. 6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 6.0: Sat Jul 27 13:18:52 PDT 2002; root:xnu/xnu-344.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc
Originally posted by bertinman
sorry if I'm lame, but I havn't seen any ref to Darwin 6.0 ever. Until last night on the Darwin-user list from apple. I've always seen it posted as Darwin 1.4.1.
Maybe there is some informative web space that I do not know of, I'd like to know though because I'm having some trouble finding new information
Anyway, I was asking for the xnu version. Darwin 1.4.1 has xnu-222.
thanks though!
-- Bert
Darwin .local. 6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 6.0: Sat Jul 27 13:18:52 PDT 2002; root:xnu/xnu-344.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc
Cheetah?!?!? Took the words right out of my mouth! Though I'm hoping that'll be the name of Mac OS XI.
Cats are speed racers! The FASTEST land animals on earth! Here kitty kitty kitty kitty!
After the cats are done then we go to the birds. They are THE FASTEST animals on earth. Falcons flat out FLY at 200mph (I think
)!!! Maybe "Falcon" will be the name of Mac OS XI. Wooweeee baby! FLY FALCON FLY!!! 
According to Big Cats Online, "panther" is a name applied to more than one species of cat. Old World panthers are typically dark-colored leopards. New World panthers are usually dark-colored jaguars or pumas. Other species of cat also exhibit dark coats less frequently, and may be called panthers by observers. Leopards in Southeast Asia are more likely to be dark than African leopards.
In North America the term "wildcat" usually refers to a bobcat, which is a species of lynx. True wildcats are much more closely related to domestic cats and exist in the wild in Europe, Asia and Africa.
As said before, Cougars, Pumas and Mountain Lions are the same species, though there are a number of subspecies scattered throughout Central and South America, and the western United States. Pumas are grouped in the family Felinae (smaller cats) while jaguars share the family Pantherinae with lions, tigers, leopards and a few other species.
Jaguars are jaguars, except when they're dark and might be panthers. A jaguar is essentially a New World leopard, sharing an ancestor with their Old World cousins an estimated 2 million years ago.
In North America the term "wildcat" usually refers to a bobcat, which is a species of lynx. True wildcats are much more closely related to domestic cats and exist in the wild in Europe, Asia and Africa.
As said before, Cougars, Pumas and Mountain Lions are the same species, though there are a number of subspecies scattered throughout Central and South America, and the western United States. Pumas are grouped in the family Felinae (smaller cats) while jaguars share the family Pantherinae with lions, tigers, leopards and a few other species.
Jaguars are jaguars, except when they're dark and might be panthers. A jaguar is essentially a New World leopard, sharing an ancestor with their Old World cousins an estimated 2 million years ago.
kernel
344 eh...
doesn't seem to be an option for me to download from opendarwin's CVS mirror...
Thanks alot though, gives me hope. I've sitting here thinking that there have been no changes to the kernel for 4 monthes! That can't be true since that kernel was 267.
On the list of things to do tonight: find out why I've been stuck in this big dark cave of "not getting my just Darwin news" all this time and get out of it!
-- Bert
344 eh...
doesn't seem to be an option for me to download from opendarwin's CVS mirror...
Thanks alot though, gives me hope. I've sitting here thinking that there have been no changes to the kernel for 4 monthes! That can't be true since that kernel was 267.
On the list of things to do tonight: find out why I've been stuck in this big dark cave of "not getting my just Darwin news" all this time and get out of it!
-- Bert
Re: kernel
apple is very bad keeping cvs up to date. probably has to do with their whole secrecy thing. sort of sucks since i think it discourages the open source development. why work on 4 month old code?
Originally posted by bertinman
344 eh...
doesn't seem to be an option for me to download from opendarwin's CVS mirror...
Thanks alot though, gives me hope. I've sitting here thinking that there have been no changes to the kernel for 4 monthes! That can't be true since that kernel was 267.
On the list of things to do tonight: find out why I've been stuck in this big dark cave of "not getting my just Darwin news" all this time and get out of it!
-- Bert
apple is very bad keeping cvs up to date. probably has to do with their whole secrecy thing. sort of sucks since i think it discourages the open source development. why work on 4 month old code?
So what the hell are they going to do with the next major rev? I think that they need to put more money into hardware, now that the OS software is pretty damn good.
Suggestions on a postcard, please
There's still a lot of stuff to do to the feline. And there's always the Office-type thingy (AppleWorks on steroids), and the iApps, and all that stuff they bought this year like Shake and eMagic. There must be a huge software team looking over their shoulders right now...
It looks as if their hardware is just waiting for the processors: it's obviously over-specced for cooling, and they seem to be set up as test-beds for something different. Where are the processors??? Were they expecting something better for this iteration?
There's still a lot of stuff to do to the feline. And there's always the Office-type thingy (AppleWorks on steroids), and the iApps, and all that stuff they bought this year like Shake and eMagic. There must be a huge software team looking over their shoulders right now...
It looks as if their hardware is just waiting for the processors: it's obviously over-specced for cooling, and they seem to be set up as test-beds for something different. Where are the processors??? Were they expecting something better for this iteration?