Screenshots of Mac OS X 10.3 Panther Leaked

gorman writes "Screenshots of Apple's next major update to OS X, Panther (10.3), have finally been leaked to the web. For months very little has been known about Panther, with only several minor rumors here and there. These screenshots show off many new features, including the return of labels, a brand new Safari-like finder, and an interesting window management system called Exposé. In addition, the screenshots show off refined visuals and improvements to all of the included Apple applications, such as video support in iChat and enhanced spam filtering in Mail. While these screenshots show off a pre-release version of Panther, it's definitely interesting to see what Apple is working on! Steve Jobs will demonstrate Panther during his keynote this Monday at WWDC and will make it available to developers."

Quick question.....

[Zugot]

When can I get this for my Pee Cee?

Longhorn 2003

[computerme]

Looks like apple is poised again to take charge of the future of OSes. I can't wait till monday so i can see what will be in longhorn 2005.

OMG OMG OMG OMG

[tomstdenis]

Screenshots of a desktop OS...
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG! /. editors must learn some moderation... Not everything is news.

Arrrgh

[Wuffle]

Why do you tempt me with your beautiful OS Apple?!1 Whyyyyy....for the love of God.

*smashes face into keyboard*

"Desktop Experience"

[nurb432]

"experience'.... Blah, how lame. Its soooo overused these days it makes me sick.

Between that and Microsoft's ' rich internet experience' crap.

Its a damned OS, its a TOOL.. its not some drug induced altered state of mind...

Re:Longhorn 2003

[Oliekirk]

Youl probably see most of the features 'borrowed' or 'reinvneted' by microsoft. Sounds like fun. Probably be slightly worse and look like Fisher Price made them.

Re:"Desktop Experience"

[christurkel]

Its a damned OS, its a TOOL.. its not some drug induced altered state of mind... You haven't used a Mac, have you?

Oh wow!

[I Am The Owl]

It looks exactly the same! That is just too cool!

Re:Torrent here

[Isbiten]

Uh oh, now the discussion will become yet another BitTorrent FaQ thread.

Re:"Desktop Experience"

[imadork]

Its a damned OS, its a TOOL.. its not some drug induced altered state of mind...

You obviously have never encountered Steve's Reality Distortion Field. Whatever it is that Steve is smoking, at least he's kind enough to share.

Re:OMG OMG OMG OMG

[maxume]

I think the editors have it figured out about right. They got you to post, didn't they?

Re:Mail.app spam improvements? How about real fixe

[Anonymous Coward]

like the fact that Mail.app automatically marks an email viewed in the preview pane as "read", when I don't want it to

Yes, how dare Mail.app mark a message "read" when it's been viewed! I think it should only be marked as "read" after I'd read it, and considered the spiritual nature of it's consequences. When will apple correct this deficiency???

Not much left for Steve

[Isbiten]

Rumor sites and leaks have pretty much gotten all the good stuff already. So I wonder what Steve will do on monday. I mean he truly loves announcing new shiny things.

Re:Why doesn't Apple embrace open source fully ?

[Anonymous Coward]

So, why won't they go a step farther and use OSS user interfaces instead of their old proprietary stuff ? With Gnome and KDE are some great professional UI around and they are coded in modern C++.

This is quite possibly the funniest thing I have ever read on slashdot. Thank you :)

ohmygodohmygodohmygod

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh please, please please let this be for real and not just photoshops or poorly compressed JPEGs wiping things out..

Could it be? It looks like.. but i'm not sure.. it could just be a trick of the compression..

THE PRISON STRIPES ARE GONE!

No more constant tv-pattern optical effects! No more fuzzy blurring headaches because my eyes are fucked up and i get massive groggy headaches after using mac os x for more than 30 minutes, becuase the constant horizontal gray lines-- and trying to read text on top of them-- leave my eyes unable to ever focus completely! No more searching all over the internet at every minor system update to find the updated versions of the hacked, third-party, reverse-engineered themes and theme systems that will work with the new system version! No more having to use shitty, amateurish themes that break shit and never work on more than one minor revision of OS X just so that i don't have to look at those fucking prison stripes and get horrendous groggy headaches!

The only way I could be happier is if they actually made this a customization option, with a range of different appearances, and added a feature to enable clear, draggable window borders, instead of having the window borders be near-invisible fuzzy-shadowed gray white lines (meaning there is no differentiation between different screen areas, thus making the screen one giant gray-white wash that makes focusing my eyes even harder...).

But I am so happy. I cannot WAIT for monday.

-- super ugly ultraman

Re:Why doesn't Apple embrace open source fully ?

[Anonymous Coward]

I can't decide if this poster is a troll or an imbecile.

Perhaps both.

Re:Arrrgh

[Alcimedes]

That's

Step3: Profit

SCO v. IBM on IRC

[Anonymous Coward]

Topic in #os: hey guyz, stop pickin on irix.
<SCO> w00t! i bought unix! im gonna b so rich!
<novell> /msg atnt haha. idiot.
<novell> whoops. was that out loud?
<atnt> rotfl
<ibm> lol
<SCO> why r u laffin at me?
<novell> dude, unix is so 10 years ago. linux is in now.
<SCO> wtf?
<SCO> hey guyz, i bought caldera, I have linux now.
<red_hat> haha, your linux sucks.
<novell> lol
<atnt> lol
<ibm> lol
<SCO> no wayz, i will sell more linux than u!
<ibm> your linux sucks, you should look at SuSE
<SuSE> Ja. Wir bilden gutes Linux für IBM.
<SCO> can we do linux with you?
<SuSE> Ich bin nicht sicher...
<ibm> *cough*
<SuSE> Gut lassen Sie uns vereinigen.
* SuSE is now SuSE[UL]
* SCO is now caldera[UL]
<turbolinux> can we play?
<conectiva> we're bored... we'll go too.
<ibm> sure!
* turbolinux is now turbolinux[UL]
* conectiva is now conectiva[UL]
<ibm> redhat: you should join!
<SuSE[UL]> Ja! Wir sind vereinigtes Linux. Widerstand ist vergeblich.
<red_hat> haha. no.
<red_hat> lamers.
<ibm> what about you debian?
<debian> we'll discuss it and let you know in 5 years.
<caldera[UL]> no one wants my linux!
<turbolinux[UL]> i got owned.
<caldera[UL]> u all tricked me. linux is lame.
* caldera[UL] is now known as SCO
<SCO> i'm going back to unix.
<SGI> yeah! want to do unix with me?
<SCO> haha. no. lamer.
<novell> lol
<ibm> snap!
<SGI> :~(
<SCO> hey, u shut up. im gonna sue u ibm.
<ibm> wtf?
<SCO> yea, you stole all the good stuff from unix.
<red_hat> lol
<SuSE[UL]> heraus laut lachen
<ibm> lol
<SCO> shutup. i'm gonna email all your friends and tell them you suck.
<ibm> go ahead. baby.
<SCO> andandand... i revoke your unix! how do you like that?
<ibm> oh no, you didn't. AIX is forever.
<novell> actually, we still own unix, you can't do that.
<SCO> wtf? we bought it from u.
<novell> whoops. our bad.
<SCO> i own u. haha
<SCO> ibm: give me all your AIX now!
<ibm> whatever. lamer.
* ibm sets mode +b SCO!*@*
* SCO has been kicked from #os (own this.)

why are "leaked" screenshots censored?

[Milkyman]

I dont understand ? unless the person leaking the screenshots ws looking at porn or something?

hear hear!

[w3weasel]

Well spoken!
Either slashdot should retract all articles that might be read on other news sites, or at least apologise profusely for being so redundant.
In fact, Slashdot should really just close up shop since all they do is repeat articles and news easily gleaned from browsing through 5 or 10 thousand websites, and a few hundred newsgroups.
Admit it Slashdot, you're just a wanna be ;)

All those leaks... surely a sign Apple is sinking!

[Kinniken]

Come on, what more did you expect from such a belaguered computer maker?

Re:Torrent here

[zsmooth]

Actual OS X users saw the screenshots hours ago. We don't need to get them via BT.

Re:Longhorn 2003

[Aknaton]

Yeah, Apple is like and R&D division that no one has to pay for.

Ah, the Memories

[Anonymous Coward]

Ah, faked screenshots. Always a mainstay of MacOS X existence. But remember back when fake screenshot websites of the original MacOS X were roaming in the tens of thousands, like the buffalo in the 1800s? Now we get all excited by just one fake site.

Back in pre-Alpha, pre-Quartz, when faked screenshots of the upcoming MacOS X were an entire social movement, I put together a fake "faked" [stepwise.com] screenshot of OS X for Stepwise.com [stepwise.com] (Solution [stepwise.com]) that got slashdotted [slashdot.org]. Lots of fun. Maybe we should do one for Panther...

Sean Luke

Re:Gnome Themes

[Have Blue]

Yeah, it's so unfair that people want to get paid for things they've put years of work into. Everyone should just give you whatever you want for free. That makes much more sense.

Re:Torrent here

[nihilogos]

Of interest... looking at my web server logs for the torrent above, the overwhelming majority of the users grabbing Mac images via a mostly-Linux news site are running... Windows

That's because we're all so technically l337 that we've altered the user agent string so we can access our online banking.

Look closer...

[zerocircle]

Where's the advanced spam filtering mentioned? I just see the normal Mail.app screen.

True, but it's a normal Mail.app screen with nothing in the inbox. That's some damn good spam filtering.

Suuure

[Anonymous Coward]

No doubt some overcaffeinated KDE and GNOME hackers are cloning these features as we speak.

Re:PC users of the world

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, you won't say it now. You'll wait three years or so until the new ideas in Panther find their way into Windows, and Microsoft claims to have "innovated" them.

THEN you'll say "Wow!"

Fucktard.

What the...?

[Overly Critical Guy]

Huh? An injection of facts and truth to support a logical conclusion? That doesn't belong here; this is Slashdot!

The circle of theft is supposed to go Xerox->Apple->Microsoft->KDE. Didn't you know that? How dare you suggest the circle be broken!

Steve Jobs's keynote

[Sri Lumpa]

Steve Jobs come on stage, talks about lots of nifty new stuff for a long while, then prepare to go away, turn back to face the crowd...

"Oh, and one more thing, I almost forgot to talk about Panther..." ... Demonstrate Panther live...

Audience yawns, somebody yells "We already saw the sceenshots!"

Steve looks a little bit disoriented "euh, yes, hum"...

But quickly recovers "Oh, and one more thing, we have at the back a demonstration machine of the new PowerMacs coming to market next month, you are really going to shit in your pants with these"

A few Apple guys come on stage with a machine described by Steve as a dual G5 (970) 2GHz, audience yawns, somebody yells "Yes, we have known for THREE BLOODY DAYS".

Steve positively looks finished, his face looking down, his speech notes fall from his hands, the lights on stage dim out while he slowly turns to exit, he advances near the back of the stage, and stops!

A spot lights up on him, his hunched body straightens up, he turns back to face the crowd with a small smile on his face, advance to the podium with long strides and start speaking:

"You will have to excuse me but I almost forgot this one LAST thing due to ship in two month."

Curtains open, revealing another machine which Jobs describes as a dual PPC G5 (970) 2.5GHz with more bells and whistles than you can shake a stick at to an audience that stays here gobsmacked, not believing what they see.

After having written this I guess I will be labeled a deluded Mac Zealot but the truth is that while MacOSX makes me drool (figuratively of course) I never owned a Mac myself but if I was in Steve Jobs position with a long string of surprises at previous keynotes and with a new architecture that cannot be too surprising in itself given how badly it is needed and expected I probably would manufacture some rumours and faked leaks to dull people's expectancy into a big surprise and then I would use a wild card to shock and awe (to reuse an already overused term) the audience by its unexpectedness as much as by its intrinsic quality. Of course this is assuming that Apple does have such a card up its sleeve.

Re:Longhorn 2003

[ctishman]

All of us do.

$2,000 dollars to drink the kool-aid

[AIXadmin]

What is crazier then the images is the fact that those of us going to WWDC next week are going to pay Apple up to 2 grand to let us drink their kool-aid. .............and get to talk directly to the engineers, marketing, etc. But hey.

Re:Longhorn 2003

[fireman sam]

Don't you mean both of us do?